Day 25 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

December 25, 2025

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Alyssa Pagan

Day 25 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Dusty Pillars. This is the James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation, trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, about 7,000 light-years away. The mid-infrared view allows scientists to focus on the dense dust in the star-forming regions within these massive pillars.

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