The image allowed scientists to see how much cosmic dust – needed for star formation – is in the region.
Additional images released this month include the galaxy pair VV 191 and cosmic dust that resembles tree rings.
The James Webb Space Telescope released a new mid-infrared view of the “pillars of creation” on Friday, revealing two types of stars and giving researchers a chance to study cosmic dust in massive gas plumes.
The new images included a group of stars 5.6 billion light-years away. Light from the MACS0647-JD system is bent and amplified by the massive gravity of the MACS0647 galaxy cluster.
Earlier this month, the latest Pillars of Creation images were released, revealing a starry sky the faintest telescopes had never seen before.
A side-by-side comparison shows the additional details revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope, compared to a Hubble Space Telescope image from 2014.
Cosmic dust in the sky created a tree-ring-like ripple, which can be seen around Wolf-Rayet 140, a binary star system.
Webb’s near-infrared, ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble show “interacting” galaxies that are actually very far away.