The James Webb Space Telescope captured two new images of a star-forming region millions of lightyears away from Earth.
The pair of images released on Saturday shows NGC 604 captured using the telescope’s near-infrared camera and mid-infrared instrument to showcase the “cavernous bubbles and stretched-out filaments of gas,” according to NASA.
“The bright orange-colored streaks in the Webb near-infrared image signify the presence of carbon-based molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs. This material plays an important role in the interstellar medium and the formation of stars and planets, but its origin is a mystery,” NASA
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