‘Treasure Chest’ cosmic cloud glitters with dozens of young stars

Many cosmic images don’t quite look like the nicknames astronomers bestow upon them. Case in point: the Crab Nebula. The Hubble Space Telescope’s portrait of the star factory looks more like an amorphous blob than a crustacean, and it’s still hard to envision a clawed creature in 19th century astronomer William Parsons’ early sketch of the nebula.This isn’t always the case, though. The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) recent glimpse at a region inside the C