Appearing as tiny red dots against the smoky backdrop of the pillars, these collections of dust and gas, each many times larger than our solar system, are stars being born. Now, Webb's infrared imaging has managed to capture it in the form of numerous protostars. But though the telescope, which detects mostly visible light, captured the structure’s impressive clouds, the "creation" happening within them was hidden. The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula has long been one of the Hubble Space Telescope's most iconic images. The James Webb Space Telescope's view of the "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula.
"This data has already begun to reveal the atmospheric composition of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth in great detail, offering hints as to their ability to potentially support life as we know it." 2. "What's more, the telescope is capable of collecting enough light from astronomical objects - ranging from birthing stars to exoplanets - to reveal what they are made of and how they are moving through space," the editors of Science wrote. The journal named Webb as its Science Breakthrough of 2022, while the journal Nature chose Jane Rigby, Webb's operations project scientist, to include in their list, "10 people who helped shape science stories" list for 2022. "Within days of coming online in late June 2022, researchers began discovering thousands of new galaxies more distant and ancient than any previously documented - some perhaps more than 150 million years older than the oldest identified by Hubble," editors of the journal Science wrote in a statement. The infrared telescope will help us see almost every part of our universe in greater detail, including the most distant galaxies, allowing us a glimpse into the past. In mid-July, Webb released its stunning first images. The launch went off without a hitch, as did the numerous steps of the telescope's deployment in the following months. When Webb launched on Christmas Day of 2021, it was the culmination of decades of work by NASA scientists and engineers. (Image credit: NASA/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez) An illustration of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully unfolded in space.
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