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Hubble vs. Webb

An interactive demo to compare Carina Nebula's image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (Hubble) and the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb)

Best experienced in landscape orientation

NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula captured on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope
NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Hubble image credit

NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI/ AURA); Acknowledgment: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley)

The image from Hubble has been transformed slightly to align it with the one from Webb (via Webb Compare )

Webb image credit

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI