A favorite celestial target is getting the James Webb Space Telescope treatment.
The Horsehead Nebula, a cosmic masterpiece about 1,300 light-years away from Earth in space, got its name from a portion looking like a seahorse in profile, buoyed by thick waves of gas and dust. Actually, it's a bit of a Rorschach test: The sign of a true nerd is if you see a knight chess piece.
Other telescopes have snapped detailed photos of this object before. But now infrared cameras on the Webb...