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Here it is with the moon for scale.

https://imgur.com/a/rZORMXh

Here's a shot in visible light with the moon in view

https://earthsky.org/todays-image/may-lunar-eclipse-and-rho-...

Rho Ophiuchus is 'upside down' relative to the pic in TFA. The bright stars with diffraction spikes in the JWST image are the three topmost stars in the visible image that are white and obscured by dust.

I wish more astronomy photos included scale information. I like using outlines of the moon and of Saturn as appropriate units for the task at hand.



So in this image we have stars smaller than the moon and a cloud of particles also much smaller than our own sun making multiple stars? I'm confused.


No think of it as what it would look like from your back yard if you could see them both at the same time.


is this as viewed from the earth? or as the moon placed next to the stars?


As viewed from the earth. This is how big the nebula is in the night sky.

The second photo contextualizes it better as it’s a single photograph.




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