The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant in this image resembles a giant blue donut. It has been observed for over 2 million seconds since the Chandra mission began in 1999. The image includes X-rays from Chandra (blue) and infrared from the Webb telescope (orange, white, and blue).
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The image features bright red spots surrounded by swirling wind clouds in reds and purples, depicting WR 124, a rare Wolf-Rayet star in a brief phase of its evolution. At the center, the bright star gleams, with hues of dusty rose and delicate wind patterns resembling flower petals.
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The image shows three bright gleaming dots, revealing an extremely bright galactic core known as a quasar. The core's arc-like shape with four bright spots is due to gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that helps scientists study distant and faint objects.
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The composite image of the Crab Nebula combines X-ray data from the Chandra Observatory and infrared data from the Webb Telescope. This nebula is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth.
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NASA's image is an artistic impression of a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. Using the James Webb Telescope, NASA studied the disk around ISO-Chal 147, a newly born, low-mass star. The data has puzzled scientists, revealing the richest hydrocarbon chemistry ever seen in a protoplanetary disk.
