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I develop JWST images from raw archive data. Every frame is my own color render of real science FITS, pulled from MAST and processed in a browser darkroom I built. Star factories, dust, deep fields, all in infrared. Data: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI.

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Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · last mo.

the 'axis of evil.' hh 666 is the first protostellar jet ever found in the carina nebula. a young star buried in that dust pillar is firing a beam of gas more than 10 light-years long. you can see it as the green column rising from the tip. jwst nircam, developed from archive data. #astronomy

A JWST NIRCam infrared close-up of a single reddish-orange dust pillar against a black, star-filled sky. A thin green-cyan jet rises straight out of the pillar's tip, with a second green knot lower down. An embedded star glows inside the pillar with diffraction spikes, and two bright blue stars sit to the right.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the whirlpool galaxy, m51, led by its dust. these copper arms are warm dust and pah molecules glowing in the mid-infrared, tracing the spiral lanes where new stars form. the bright core is the galaxy's own stars shining through in near-infrared. developed from raw jwst data. #astronomy

JWST infrared image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51). Sweeping spiral arms of warm copper-orange dust wind around a bright white-pink galactic core, with darker gaps between the arms and scattered foreground stars across the frame.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

sgr c, a star-forming cloud near the center of the milky way, about 300 light-years from the supermassive black hole. the cyan filaments are ionized hydrogen, threaded through a dense carpet of stars and dark, cold clouds. developed from raw jwst data. #astronomy

JWST near-infrared image of Sgr C near the Galactic center. A pale cyan cloud of ionized gas with thin, needle-like filaments sits amid an extremely dense field of yellow and white stars, broken by dark patches of cold, opaque dust.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

cassiopeia a, the youngest known remnant of a massive star's explosion in our galaxy. the star blew up about 340 years ago from our point of view. green, orange and blue trace different debris and dust in the expanding shell. developed from raw jwst data. #astronomy

JWST mid- and near-infrared image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. A roughly circular shell of glowing filaments in green, gold and blue expands outward against a dark starfield, with knotted orange dust toward the lower right and wispy structure throughout.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the tarantula nebula, 30 doradus. the largest and brightest star-forming region in the local group, sitting in the large magellanic cloud. the blue-white cavity is hollowed out by the massive star cluster at its center. developed from raw jwst data. #astronomy

JWST near-infrared image of the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus). A large blue-white cavity of glowing gas fills the center, carved open by a dense cluster of bright stars. Rust-orange dust filaments and pillars surround the cavity against a field of stars, several with prominent diffraction spikes.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the cosmic cliffs of ngc 3324, at the edge of the carina nebula complex. developed from the raw jwst archive: six nircam filters, 6.8 hours of exposure. the gold is dust glowing along the rim of a cavity carved out by young massive stars above the frame. #astronomy

Infrared image of the Cosmic Cliffs in NGC 3324: a glowing golden-orange wall of dust and gas rising like a mountain ridge across the lower half of the frame, capped by wisps of warm haze. Above it, a deep blue expanse filled with hundreds of sharp stars showing cross-shaped diffraction spikes.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

lha 120-n 159, a star-forming region in the large magellanic cloud, developed from jwst archive data in my browser darkroom. six nircam filters, 1.15 to 4.7 µm. blue is ionized gas blown into bubbles by young stars; orange is the surrounding dust. data: nasa/esa/csa/stsci #NASAWebb #astronomy

infrared view of the star-forming region n159 in the large magellanic cloud. translucent blue bubbles of glowing gas fill the left and center, laced with orange dust filaments. bright white-orange clumps of newborn stars sit to the right, the largest crossed by dark veins of dust. a dense field of stars covers the whole frame. a caption strip lists the jwst nircam filters and data credit.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the top edge of the horsehead nebula, developed from jwst archive data in my browser darkroom. six nircam filters, 0.9 to 4.3 µm, colors follow wavelength. this ridge is a wall of gas and dust lit and slowly eroded by uv from nearby hot stars. data: nasa/esa/csa/stsci #NASAWebb #astronomy

infrared view of the top edge of the horsehead nebula. a glowing golden ridge of dust and gas crosses the frame, its lower edge breaking into bright wispy clumps against dark space. the cloud interior above is a darker smoky brown laced with faint filaments. below the ridge, scattered stars and a few small distant galaxies show through. a caption strip lists the jwst nircam filters and data credit.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌬️ We finally caught our galaxy’s central black hole breathing. This Chandra X-ray view reveals the hot wind blowing from Sgr A* — the long-sought outflow that astronomers just confirmed (June 4, 2026). 50 years of searching… and here it is. Data: NASA/CXC Paper: arXiv:2509.10615

Colorful Chandra X-ray view of the Milky Way’s galactic center. The bright core is the Sgr A complex, with prominent golden bipolar lobes of hot plasma showing the newly detected wind from the supermassive black hole Sgr A*. Thousands of X-ray point sources (binaries and white dwarfs) fill the field. Colors represent X-ray energy: gold (1–3 keV), teal (3–5 keV), blue (5–8 keV). Data from 43 Chandra observations.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the pillars of creation, m16. probably the most famous thing jwst ever shot, but this is not the press image: i pulled the raw nircam mosaics and developed my own version in the browser darkroom i am building. cold dense dust, stars being born inside, 6,500 light-years away. #astronomy

towering columns of brown and orange dust, the pillars of creation, rising against a deep blue field scattered with stars; the pillar tips glow softly where new stars are forming inside.
Cosmic Canvas@dailygalaxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

w51a, one of the most massive star-forming regions in the milky way, hidden behind the dust of the galactic plane. nearly invisible to optical telescopes; jwst sees straight through. captured may 2025, public since last month, never given a press release. my own develop of the raw data. #astronomy

infrared view of the w51a star-forming region: gold and orange clouds of warm dust crossed by dark lanes of cold dense dust, with two bright white clusters of newborn stars near the center, on a field packed with orange and blue stars.