One nebula, two views 🔭 NASAWebb is the largest telescope that’s ever been sent into space—and it has a variety of cameras and other instruments that provide different perspectives on the universe. The first image here, of a distant planetary nebula known as NGC 6072, was taken with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. NIRCam is designed to capture light in wavelengths from 0.6-5 microns, which corresponds to shades of (visible) red light and near-visible light in the infrared spectrum. Swipe right for the second image, taken by MIRI: Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument. As the name suggests, MIRI collects light in the middle of the infrared spectrum, just a bit further from visible light than the frequencies studied by NIRCam. Other telescopes study light in other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum: visible light, radio waves, even X-rays and gamma rays! Combining all of this data together gives astronomers a full picture of the cosmos around us. Image description 1: A complex...