Webb’s portrait of the Pillars of Creation is a star-filled delight [TechSpot]

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The iconic target is a tight crop of the Eagle Nebula located around 6,500 light-years from Earth. The arches and spires are clouds of gas and dust that serve as incubators for new stars. Webb’s high-powered Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) was able to image the formation with far more detail than…