Enjoy this remarkable visualization that uses data from Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope to create an immersive cosmic experience.
You’ve seen the Pillars of Creation - one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most famous snaps - first captured all the way back 1995. Now, you can journey inside the soaring dust clouds with a NASA video that dives into the majestic Pillars with stunning 3D footage. “This is the most comprehensive and detailed multi-wavelength movie yet of these star-birthing clouds,” said NASA in a statement.
The sequence shows how Hubble and Webb complement each other. Hubble’s view of the Pillars is in visible light while Webb’s view is in infrared. “Hubble sees objects that glow in visible light, at thousands of degrees,” NASA said. “Webb's infrared vision, which is sensitive to cooler objects with temperatures of just hundreds of degrees, pierces through obscuring dust to see stars embedded in the pillars.”
The video helpfully and simply narrates a journey into the Eagle Nebula and provides context for everything you see. Webb, a much newer space telescope, got in on the action with its own version of the Pillars in 2022 and its imagery is artfully combined with that of Hubble to take you on a ride through space.