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This would make a cool, Maiden, album cover. 🤘🏻

This image is 4,000 × 3,232 pixels; the original is 30,866 × 38,204 px. It's ABSURDLY huge. In this scene, stars are bright, multi-pointed features. There are also some objects called Herbig-Haro objects (upper right), where protostars eject powerful jets that ram into and heat up gas and dust.

The yellow–green–brown feature is a veil of dust and gas from which the stars condense; bluer dust is at the upper right. The total field of is about 16 × 20 arcminutes. See the original figure here: esawebb.org/images/weic2... Credit: ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/K. Luhman/C. Alves De Oliveira/M. Zamani

Like, this is an area about TWO PERCENT of the total scene. By my count, there's around 10 stars local to the Milky Way in this view. EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY