The top half of the 'hourglass' reveals clouds of gas and dust in shades of orange and bronze, while clouds on the bottom half are awash in blues and lavenders.
The image captured by JWST is a representative-color infrared image, meaning that the colors represent the density of the gas and dust clouds being illuminated – not the colors of the clouds themselves. Areas where cloud material is the thinnest, are shown in blue, while areas where they are thickest appear in orange.hourglass lies the protostar.
While hidden from direct view in the image, signs of the protostar can be seen by the light being emitted above and below a dark line in the middle of the neck. It is this light that forms the illuminated "hourglass" in the nebula., or a dense region where the material is clumping together, which surrounds the protostar. From this material, planets may eventually form.
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