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DuncanEastwood t1_iu8bl9d wrote

Reply to comment by MalcolmY in Why does the angle of Spitzer's Pillars of Creation image look different? by MalcolmY

It 𝘸𝘒𝘴 taken from somewhere else in space. The object that we're "viewing" and the telescopes have all been moving since the first images were captured.

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Lord_Space_Lizard t1_iu8oiga wrote

> It 𝘸𝘒𝘴 taken from somewhere else in space.

They're 7,000 light-years away from us. A light year is 6,000,000,000,000 miles so these things are 42,000,000,000,000,000 miles away. A couple hundred thousand miles between camera locations aren't going to do shit to perspective.

> The object that we're "viewing" and the telescopes have all been moving since the first images were captured.

Again, they're 7,000 light-years away, in the 30 years between photos there wasn't enough time for things to move enough to have any impact

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