Editorial staff of El País
The POT released the 3D visualization most detailed ever seen of the “Pillars of Creation“, the imposing celestial structures that were captured for the first time in 1995 by the Hubble telescope.
The pillars are enormous structures of gas and dust that are located in the heart of the “Eagle Nebula” 6,500 light years away. Land.
“By flying between the pillars, viewers experience their three-dimensional structure and see how different they look in the visible-light view from Hubble versus the infrared view from Webb,” explained principal viewing scientist Frank Summers of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Photo: NASA.
This new animation “takes visitors into the three-dimensional structures of the pillars.” “Rather than an artistic interpretation, the video is based on observational data from a scientific paper led by Anna McLeodassociate professor at Durham University in the United Kingdom,” detailed the space agency.
The goal is for viewers to experience how the two most powerful space telescopes (Hubble and Webb) work to transmit the most complete portrait of this structure. While the former shows objects that shine in visible light, the latter is sensitive to cooler objects passing through the dust and can distinguish the stars embedded in the pillars.
“When we combine observations from NASA’s space telescopes at different wavelengths of light, We expand our understanding of the universe“said Mark Clampin, director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
