# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl1M8vtO2Ue
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2427132-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-12-06T15:19:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

The best of both worlds 🎸⁣
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Recognize the Pillars of Creation? Two of the James Webb Space Telescope’s images — one taken in near-infrared light and the other in mid-infrared — were fused together for a new take on a familiar classic. This composite sets the star-forming region ablaze with fresh details.⁣
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Look for thousands of nearly formed stars, looking like bright orange-red spheres that lie at the edges of the dusty pillars. Stars primarily show up in near-infrared wavelengths, so this is the work of Webb’s near-infrared camera (NIRCam).⁣
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Meanwhile, Webb’s mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) is all about dust. That’s clearest in the layers of diffuse, orange dust draping the top of the image. The densest regions of dust are cast in deep indigo hues, obscuring our view of the activities taking place inside the dense pillars. Dust is a major ingredient of star formation, one the reasons why the region is overflowing with stars.⁣
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Download this image and learn more at the link in NASAWebb’s bio.⁣
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Image description: Three prominent pillars of semi-opaque gas and dust, in between shades of rust brown and gray-blue, start at the bottom left and reach toward the top right. From left to right, each pillar is consecutively smaller. The background blends from dark blue in the bottom left corner to bright orange-red in the upper right. The strongest bright orange hues dip into a V shape at the top center. Many of the tips of the pillars appear tinged with what looks like lava. Assorted eight-pointed yellow and blue stars litter the scene. There are also tiny orange-red dots at the edges of the pillars, which are newly born stars.⁣
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Credits: NASA, EuropeanSpaceAgency/ESAWebb, CanadianSpaceAgency, Space_Telescopes; with image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI)⁣
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#JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #NASA #PillarsOfCreation #Timeless #BestOfBothWorlds #Space #Stars

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