r/spaceporn • u/ResponsibilityNo2097 • Oct 28 '22

JWST MIRI's image of Pillars of Creation James Webb

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u/dokjreko Oct 28 '22

They almost look like dragons

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u/blumpkinmuncher Oct 28 '22

I was thinking Dementors.

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u/psychopcmps Oct 28 '22

Made me think of the hand of some old, long forgotten god.

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u/diary_of_jain Oct 28 '22

Diego Maradona?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

It’s obviously the hand of Death trying to find the third brother.

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u/redarchnz Oct 28 '22

Prison Mike?

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u/benign_said Oct 28 '22

Wayne Gretzky.

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u/WhyteBeard Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

- Michael Scott

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u/mccloud969 Oct 29 '22

Gruel. Nothing but gruel.

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u/Pikalika Oct 28 '22

Same, especially the top one. You can actually see fingers

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u/heybuddyitsme Oct 28 '22

I see a Dragon leading hooded figures to do battle, LotR style.

Such a beautiful photo, I cannot take my eyes off.

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u/terdferguson Oct 28 '22

The worst thing about prison was the Dementors

  • FDR

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u/Lookslikeapersonukno Oct 28 '22

I was thinking that one pillar kind of looks like a penis

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u/jefrye Oct 28 '22

I definitely see meerkats.

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u/brucewayneaustin Oct 28 '22

OMG! It is meerkats!!!

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u/LordPennybags Oct 28 '22

It's a claw made of smaller claws.

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u/somabeach Oct 29 '22

Some how I immediately thought of the scene from Fellowship of the Ring where Arwen summons the river to wash away the Ring Wraiths and it turns into charging horses.

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u/thissideofheat Oct 28 '22

...pointing at something.

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u/ItsJustArtBruh Oct 28 '22

To me it looks like its giving me the finger if you look sideways lol

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u/Koopslovestogame Oct 28 '22

I see an out stretched spooky hand

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u/Carved_In_Chocolate Oct 29 '22

Nazgûl (ring wraiths).

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u/freedfg Mar 19 '24

I can't not see a giant space horse.

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u/dokjreko Mar 19 '24

I could see why you would, for sure.

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u/Mattcha462 Oct 28 '22

The one in the middle looks a bit like Gandolf looking downward with glowing eyes. There’s a catlike face jutting out at the base of the first “pillar”. Looks of objects to pick out, could look at that for hours.

Do they know the chemical makeup of that formation or is it the usual “gas and dust” assessment?

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u/PyroDesu Oct 29 '22

Do they know the chemical makeup of that formation

That's part of why JWST is looking at it, I would think. We can tell a lot from spectra and it can gather more spectral data.

Most of it is just hydrogen, naturally.

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u/rachel_tenshun Oct 28 '22

I was thinking ethereal horses being unleashed on the galaxy.

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u/Moriar-T Oct 28 '22

Or a hand. Maybe its going to snap.

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u/effinmetal Oct 29 '22

I see a graboid from Tremors.