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CTOnews.com, October 29 (Xinhua)-- NASA has released the second picture of the famous celestial scene, the Pillar of creation, taken by the James Weber Space Telescope, which looks slightly scarier than the first.

The latest image of the pillar of creation

Last week's column of creation image, located in the Eagle Nebula about 6500 light-years from Earth, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 1, 1995. Every famous telescope takes pictures of it in an attempt to understand the physical and chemical effects of new stars when they are born in huge clouds of gas and dust.

This new image was taken using the Weber Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI). Last week's image was taken with a near-infrared camera (NIRCam), so the two images are different. Last week's image is made up of interstellar dust and gas, shining with the light of young stars.

In the latest image, gray and velvety dust jumps through the universe like a twisted, roaring ghost. Stars are covered by dust, but some of them penetrate the darkness in red light.

Infrared is invisible to the human eye, and new images taken by Weber's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) capture more details about dust and the structure of the Pillar of creation.

Although thousands of stars form in the Pillar of creation, and they usually shine, their starlight cannot be detected in medium infrared light. In contrast, MIRI can only see the youngest stars, which have not yet shed their dusty shells and shine like rubies in the image. At the same time, the blue stars in the image represent older stars that have shed layers of gas and dust. In the background of the image, dense dust areas are depicted as gray, while red, horizon-like areas are haunted by colder and scattered dust.

Unlike many of Weber's recent images, there are no galaxies shining in the background because their light cannot penetrate the dust.

CTOnews.com learned that looking at the Pillar of creation from a mid-infrared perspective will enable researchers to better understand the millions of years of star formation in the star nursery.

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