Print, broadcast and online media has been swift to publish new images of the ‘Pillars of Creation’.
These cool, dense clouds of hydrogen gas and dust in the Serpens constellation, some 6,500 light-years from Earth, are now visible in stunning scale, colour and beauty thanks to the new James Webb space observatory, which was launched in 2021.
Dr Gavin Merrifield, General Secretary of Christians in Science, told Evangelicals Now: ‘These beautiful, new images show in fresh glory the famous ‘Pillars of Creation’ in the Eagle nebula. They are just one of many gigantic star and planet factories in our galaxy.
