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Cat’s Head Nebula (Webb NIRCam image)
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared image of the Cat’s Head Nebula peers through some of the dust to reveal a dense field of stars and the filament’s complex surface structure. Faint, wispy structures to the left of the pillar contain material exposed to intense stellar radiation. Webb captures a dense field of stars, shown in blue and yellow. Even in near-infrared light, some stars are still…
- Credit
- ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA
- Telescope
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NIRCam
- Seeing in
- near-infrared
- Release
- weic2622c
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
- Published
- Source
- Webb release page
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