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The 20 Hours takes you, Thursday, October 20, beyond the sky, towards the Milky Way with the shots taken by NASA’s James Webb Telescope. He photographed the “Pillars of Creation” 6,500 light years from Earth. This is where stars are formed.
It’s as if the universe was reaching out to us. The pillars of creation, gigantic columns brunettes and orange were photographed by the James Telescope Webb from NASA. The Pillars of Creation are located in the Eagle Nebula, 6,500 light years away in our galaxy, the Milky Way. In 1995 then 2014, the telescope hubble photographed them. It was then opaque masses. Now, thanks to infrared from the James Telescope Webbthe images are transcribed with colors accessible to our gaze.
Scientists can now see the invisible. The columns are made of gas and dust, the basic materials of new stars. “All of these areas that are red are areas where very young stars are forming.”explains Sylvie Cabritastronomer at the Paris Observatory. These red spots are eruptions of material from young stars in the process of hatching. The new James telescope Webb has delivered snapshots of our universe of an acuity never before achieved. “Perhaps in billions of years there will be earth-equivalent planets around these stars”thinks Eric Lagadecof the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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