Back in October , JWST delighted us with two young look-alike of the far-famed Pillars of Creation , a cosmic feature of dust and flatulency rendered famous by Hubble . The simulacrum were taken by two different instruments on JWST : theNear - Infrared Camera ( NIRCam)and theMid - Infrared Camera ( MIRI ) , which look at the world in slightly unlike lights . Now , the combined view has been release and it ’s better than the sum of its parts .

The thousands of newly form stars and the glittering sphere of ground star body are revealed by the NIRCam while the stratum of coolheaded and hot detritus from the grayscale layers of the pillars and the orangish and purple social organisation that shields the field of survey from more distant visible light was caught by the MIRI . Almost everything you see here is local to the Eagle Nebula , a large gas swarm 6,500 weak - days away .

novel details about these incredible complex body part have fare to light . Among the most intriguing features is the lava - ruby-red structures fancy in the pillars , especially the middle one . These are the places where the youngest stars are at their most active creating ultrasonic jet of material as they grow . They are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old .

At the bottom left of this almost-square image are the thickest regions of brown and purple gas and dust. There are many layers of semi-transparent gas and dust overlaying one another. A peak rises about a third of the way from the bottom, and becomes far darker with two bright red areas toward the tip, which look like lava. The dust becomes sheer about halfway up the image. There’s a slight gap in the dust, which allows the multi-colored background to come into view. The background is blue at bottom left, orange at top center, and hazy pink in regions right outside the pillars. The light brown pillars continue, taking the shape of a shoulder at the base, with three prominent columns rising out toward the upper right. The top left pillar is the largest and widest. The peaks of the second and third pillars are set off in darker shades of brown and have transparent purple haze just outside them.

The combined NIRCam and MIRCam view of the Pillars of Creation. Image Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI)

JWST ’s new panorama of the Pillars will help astronomers build a better 3D view of the star - forming region , meaning a better understanding of how and where stars form .