With the Thanksgiving holiday almost over, you may be thinking of Christmas lights after seeing the image above. Think larger, such as the size of a galaxy. You are looking at approximately 500,000 stars at the center of the Milky Way galaxy as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and it is pretty amazing.
The Webb telescope site has this to say about the image (and even more to say at the linked site):
A bright field of gas sweeps around the edge of a dark, dense cloud where young stars are bursting out to take their place in the universe. They join an estimated 500,000 other stars in the scene, of various ages, sizes, and colors. It’s the hub of our Milky Way galaxy, a city center at rush hour, making our solar system’s calm corner a frontier outpost by comparison. Discover the new features – and mysteries – NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed with its unprecedented infrared-light view of the chaotic region, and what it means for astronomy.
Our Awesome Universe 