James Webb Telescope's awe-inspiring photo of Pillars of Creation 7,000 light years away

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).A stunning portrait shows the awe-inspiring columns of interstellar gas and dust encircled by an innumerable legion of twinkling stars.The Hubble Telescope first snapped the cosmic formation in 1995 and then again in 2014. READ MORE: Putin's troops torturing Ukrainians with electric shocks and 'plastic pipes'But the JWST team have proudly claimed that this latest picture will help them "learn a whole lot more about how stars form".The Pillars of Creation exist approximately 7,000 light years from Earth – a mind-boggling distance when one light year is the equivalent to 5.88trillion miles.But JWST's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) is known to be capable of detecting light from the earliest stars and galaxies by using a broad range of infrared light to "see" back in time.In Hubble's 2014 shot, the stars are seen as bright red orbs but NIRCam's image shows the glowing twinkles as they appear in space.The JWST picture also captured wavy lines at the edge of some pillars, which have been identified as stars still forming within the gas and dust.NASA went on to point out that the young stars shoot out supersonic jets from time to time that collide with clouds of material like the pillars.