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Paul Byrne
@theplanetaryguy.com

This scene shows a large "cometary globule", a region of dust and gas in which stellar formation takes place and so called because of a well defined head and trailing tail. The star cluster is in the constellation Carina, about 7,500 lightyears away. Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2...

Paul Byrne
@theplanetaryguy.com

The field of view top to bottom in this scene is 5.9 arcminutes, or around one fifth of a full Moon. The image is a composite of four infrared wavelengths (1.62 μm, 1.64 μm, 4.44 μm, and 4.7 μm) acquired by the JWST NIRCam instrument. Credit: ESA/NASA/CSA/ M. Reiter; Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç