NASA Telescopes Create Colorful “Craft” From Nearby Nebula

The composite image of the Tarantula Nebula, one of the brightest and largest regions of star formation to Earth, contains X-rays from Chandra in the blue layer that reveal gas that has been blown away in winds from the surfaces of young, massive stars and heated to millions of degrees by shock waves, like sonic booms from supersonic jets. The red is infrared data from Webb showing thousands of young stars, plus swaths of cool dust that will provide the ingredients to one day form new stars and planets. Hubble optical data in the green layer uncovers hydrogen gas that is warmer than seen with Webb as well as some individual stars through the nebula.