The Webb Space Telescope has just imaged what might be its most iconic target yet: the Pillars of Creation, a monumental arm of the Eagle Nebula. The pillars are so-named for their magnitude.

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Pillars of Creation ...

Today, NASA released a stunning near-infrared camera image of the iconic "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula, some 7,000-light-years away.

In the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view, the Pillars of Creation inside the Eagle Nebula look like spires and arches of rock you might see rising from a desert landscape ...

The 'Pillars of Creation' exists within the large Eagle Nebula, a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, that was discovered sometime between 1745 and 1746.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a towering structure of billowing gas in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16). The pillar rises 9.5 light-years tall and is 7,000 light-years away from ...

A wide shot of the Eagle Nebula from the European Southern Observatory showing the Pillars of Creation near the center. ESO Enter the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope.

ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known affectionately as the Pillars of Creation.

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.