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Let’s take a look at the Eagle Nebula—twice in fact—with the Hubble and Webb space telescopes! First observed by Hubble in 1995, this captivating scene was revisited in 2014 by the telescope. Hubble’s reexamination of this region, seen here, shows a sharper and wider view than its original image. In visible light, the dark brown pillars seem multi-layered and opaque, with only a few red stars able to peek through the columns of gas and dust. In 2022, astronomers used Webb to observe this same ar