The winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This galactic portrait was captured by Webb's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). In this image, the dark red features trace the filamentary warm dust, while colours of red, orange, and yellow show the sign spots of ionised gas by the recently formed star clusters. Credit: NASA

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