so, let's bring in mike menzel, nasa systems engineer for the james webb telescope, to tell us what thisou. >> welcome. first of all, let me say, we knew the pillars of creation existed because the hubble telescope about 30 years ago picked up these images. obviously a much sharper, clearer image today. what is this? what am i looking at here? >> this is a vast cloud of gas in space. the cloud itself is maybe around ten light years in size. what you're seeing is an area where vast amounts of stars are being born. outside of the field of this, there are stars that have already been born, very hot stars that are actually now evaporating the cloud that they were born in. so, that evaporation is peeling away the layers of gas and leaving the most dense layers there. and those dense layers are what you see there as the pillars of creation. now, they were nick named that because inside these pillars, stars are still being born. and this latest image from the james webb space telescope has some very fascinating things in it. the red areas that the astronomers have described as looking like lava