Red Blue Filaments Nebula
© ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kast
A celestial creepy-crawly
A spider with 3-light-year-long legs seems like awfully bad news for arachnophobes, but if you're one of the 6% of Earth's population afflicted with fear of spiders, rest assured the Red Spider Nebula can't get you. Big as this bug is, it's also far away: a nice, safe distance of roughly 5,000 light years. And the legs? Just massive, bubble-like dust clouds inflated by gases that billow from the central white dwarf. Appropriately, this spidery shot was captured by NASA's Webb Telescope, whose Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) makes finely detailed imaging possible from astronomical distances.
Protostar L1527 surrounded by nebulous matter
Interacting Galaxies
Orange gas pillars and stars in Lobster Nebula
Blue Orange Nebula, Stardust, Stars
Orange Nebula
Blue Bubble Nebula
Cosmic Cliffs of NGC 3324