The Pillars of Creation as captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope look like arches and spires and are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust. This is a region where young stars are forming.

The new image, taken by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, captures more detail about the dust and structure of the pillars.

This image isn’t as magnified as you might think—the Pillars would be more than a tenth the size of the full moon in the night sky if they were bright enough to be seen with the naked eye ...

And now we have the Pillars of Creation —arguably the most famous image taken by Webb's predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, in 1995. (Chances are, someone you know has a T-shirt or coffee ...

The previous photo of these pillars, taken in 1995, went on to stand out from all the rest of NASA's space images, the agency said. "The Hubble image is so popular that it has appeared in movies ...

See step by step how scientists assembled the famous image of the Eagle Nebula -- the so-called 'Pillars of Creation' -- from raw data beamed down from the Hubble Space Telescope.

In Webb’s mid-infrared image of the pillars, for example, very few stars are visible, while the near-infrared can’t penetrate the deep layers of dust to show such detail.

The James Webb Space Telescope has glimpsed the dark side of the usually ethereal Pillars of Creation, located 6,500 light-years away in the Eagle Nebula.

The new image, taken by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, captures more detail about the dust and structure of the pillars.

The new image, taken by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, captures more detail about the dust and structure of the pillars.

The James Webb Space Telescope has glimpsed the dark side of the usually ethereal Pillars of Creation, located 6,500 light-years away in the Eagle Nebula.