This striking collage compares images of the Flame Nebula captured by NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. On the left, the visible light view from Hubble reveals dense gas and dust, while the infrared images from Webb on the right provide a clearer look through the nebula, revealing young stars

Credits: NASA James Webb Space Telescope

The Flame Nebula is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, where cosmic objects like brown dwarfs reside. These objects are too small to sustain hydrogen fusion in their cores, unlike fully developed stars.

Credits: NASA James Webb Space Telescope

A binary pair of forming stars creates this shimmering hourglass of gas and dust. Webb's ability to detect near-infrared light reveals stunning detail and structure within Lynds 483 (L483).

Credits: NASA James Webb Space Telescope

SIMP 0136 is a rapidly-rotating, free-floating object about 13 times the mass of Jupiter, located 20 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way. Astronomers believe it could be a brown dwarf, a type of object that’s neither a planet nor a star.

Credits: NASA James Webb Space Telescope

Webb's new view of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2283 was captured in just 10 minutes of observation. It reveals the light from hydrogen gas clouds heated by young stars, along with the stars themselves.

Credits: NASA James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that the accretion disk surrounding Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, is more active than previously thought, emitting a constant stream of unpredictable flares.

Credits: NASA James Webb Space Telescope

Webb observed the dwarf galaxy Leo P and its star formation patterns. Isolated from larger galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda, Leo P formed stars early on but ceased shortly after the Epoch of Reionization.

Credits: NASA James Webb Space Telescope