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Print, broadcast and online media has been swift to publish new images of the ‘Pillars of Creation’.

Iain Taylor

Figure Image
photo: NASA and STScI

These cool, dense clouds of hydrogen gas and dust in the Serpens constellation, some 6,500 light-years from Earth, are now visible in stunning scale, colour and beauty thanks to the new James Webb space observatory, which was launched in 2021.