# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOwkHBACda0
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-18T21:33:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

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, finely-detailed explosion in shades of red and orange fans out from a bright region at the center. Various stars and galaxies fill the background, with six-pointed diffraction spikes.

Image description 2: A similar image, but in shades of blue and blue-green rather than red and orange. This image is not as finely detailed, but more clearly shows the bright central star at the middle.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

#NASA #JWST #Universe

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