This image from the NIRCam instrument on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows the central portion of the star cluster IC 348. The wispy curtains filling the image are interstellar material reflecting the light from the cluster's stars - what is known as a reflection nebula. The bright star closest to the centre of the frame is actually a pair of type B stars in a binary system, which are the most massive stars in the cluster. Two prominent, bright stars near the centre of the image show Webb's eight-point diffraction spikes. Credit: NASA
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