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Starry starry night ✨ Slide through to see the bigger picture. Webb’s near-infrared eye sees through dust and gas, laying bare irregular galaxy NGC 6822’s stars. See that bright, bluish orb in the second image? That’s actually a star-packed globular cluster. Because Webb sees in colors invisible to the human eye, its infrared imagery has to be “translated” to the visible spectrum we can see. Here, the brightest stars have been assigned pale blue and cyan colors, corresponding to shorter wavelengths of light (red and near-infrared light). Meanwhile, fainter stars have been assigned warmer colors, corresponding to longer wavelengths of light (mid-infrared light). To see the full image and learn more, go to esawebb.org/images/potm. Head to our Instagram Story to set this as your wallpaper! Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Meixner Image Description: This set of images makes up a huge, dense field completely filled with tiny stars. Many galaxies of various shapes and sizes can be seen hiding behind the stars. In the third image, there is some faint, wispy, dark red gas. A few of the stars imaged are a bit larger than the rest, with visible diffraction spikes. Two particularly prominent foreground stars can be found in the fifth image. #JWST #ESA #NASA #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #Stars #Space #Astronomy #Galaxy