Spooky Pillars of Creation snap reveals a dark side
"Mid-infrared light specializes in detailing where dust is, [and] the stars aren't bright enough at these wavelengths to appear," NASA said.What the image does show is a lot of very important dust that's a major factor in star formation, and stars that are still in the process of developing, which can be spotted by their red hue in the MIRI photograph.
"When knots with sufficient mass form within the pillars of gas and dust, they begin to collapse under their own gravity, slowly heat up, and eventually form new stars," NASA said. The NIRCam image shows stars throughout their formation cycles, as well as jets of energetic matter being shot out from developing stars, which appear like"lava" near the ends of some of the pillars. The stars emitting those bursts of light are estimated to only be a few hundred thousand years old.
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