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Get a load of the horsehead on this nebula.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently produced the “sharpest infrared images to date” of the Horsehead Nebula, according to the European Space Agency.

As BBC Science Focus explains, images like this are made up of multiple composites taken at different infrared wavelengths, then shifted to the visible spectrum and combined.

A color-shifted image of a portion of the Horsehead Nebula. The dust clouds are blue and brown, a reddish glow follows their contour, and stars and galaxies sit in the background.
A small portion of the Horsehead Nebula.
Photo: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, K. Misselt
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