Orion Nebula - JWST

Just love those 6 pointed James Webb stars. Here is panel 2 of a 2 panel mosaic of the Orion Nebula.

Panel 1 was shown earlier in the book. This is a composite image from several filters that represents emission from ionized gas, hydrocarbons, molecular gas, dust and scattered starlight.

This is the part of the Orion Nebula that most amateur astronomers usually blow out or overexpose in their images. A group of bright, young, massive stars known as the Trapezium Cluster, located just off the top right of the image, illuminates the whole area. The intense UV radiation from the Trapezium cluster in the upper right, which is also steadily degrading the Orion Bar, produces a hot, ionized environment. This image produced from a composite of several raw data files of different infra red wavelengths, downloaded from the James Webb Space Telescope Archive. The F300 filter was mapped to Red, the F322 was mapped to Cyan and the F444 filter was mapped to Lime Green.

Image produced from raw data downloaded from MAST: the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes

Original image by ESA/Hubble, alignment, integration and colour mapping by Arc Fortnight.