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 is a composite image that integrates data from Webb's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) & Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). In this image the dark red regions trace the filamentary warm dust permeating the medium of the galaxy. The red regions show the reprocessed light from complex molecules forming on dust grains, while colours of orange and yellow reveal the regions of ionised gas by the recently formed star clusters. Credit: NASA

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