# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMIov_qTffx
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32461151-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-15T16:21:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Toe beans in space 🐾

To celebrate three years of studying the universe, NASAWebb has clawed back the thick, dusty layers of a section within the Cat's Paw Nebula. With its infrared vision, our Webb telescope can peer through clouds of gas and dust to uncover what lies beneath. In this case, it's a set of blue, glowing regions of space which could be said to resemble the paw pads of a cat.

These toe beans appear to contain young stars shaping the surrounding gas and dust. Towards the center of this image, small, fiery red clumps mark regions where massive star formation is underway.

The Cat's Paw Nebula is approximately 4,000 light-years from Earth, and can be found in the constellation Scorpius. Visit nasa.gov/webb to get the full tail... um, tale behind this image.

Image description: A section of the Cat’s Paw Nebula. Four roughly circular areas are toward the center of the frame: a small oval toward the top left, a large circle in the top center, and two ovals at bottom left and right. Each circular area has a luminous blue glow. Brown-orange filaments of dust, which vary in density, surround these four bluish patches and stretch toward the frame’s edges. At the center are small, fiery red clumps scattered among the brown dust. Many small, yellow-white stars are spread across the scene, some with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb. 

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

#NASA #Space #Universe #JWST #Cats

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