The image is a combination of images provided by Chandra Xray, which sees in X-ray light, and James Webb, which detects infrared light. So this mesmerising image is a composite.

Together with optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope, infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and supporting data from XMM-Newton and ESO's New Technology Telescope, they created this dazzling image by matching the data with human-perceptible colours.

This mesmerising image shows two galaxies, a nebula and a star cluster.

The star cluster NGC 346 is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light years from Earth. The purple cloud shows the remnants of the supernova explosion of a massive star. The "barred" spiral galaxy NGC 1672 is shown, and unlike other spiral galaxies, the arms of this galaxy are barred straight across the centre with stars. Between the stars you can also see the Eagle Nebula with its columns of gas and dust. Finally, there is the spiral galaxy Messier 74, visible to the human eye from Earth. It is also known as the Ghost Galaxy because it is relatively faint and full of gas and dust.

Image description:

Here thousands of specks of light blanket the darkness of space. A thick band of orange clouds stretches along the lower edge of the image, encircling our lower right corner and extending to the right side. There is a similar patch of orange clouds near our upper left corner. Centred between these gas clouds, near the top of the image, is a cluster of stars densely packed with white, blue and purple specks of light. To our left, a large, bright white spot is surrounded by a purple haze. This is a hot, young, massive star, sending strong winds outward from its surface. A patch of smaller dots, other young stars, can be found in a faint purple haze near the centre of the image.

Isn't it fascinating?