An image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows Herbig-Haro 49/50, or simply HH 49/50, a type of nebula associated with star formation. The Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) instruments were used in combination to observe infrared details of the outflows whose shape led to the object being nicknamed the Cosmic Tornado. For years, astronomers have wondered what the object they could barely see in images obtained with other instruments at the “tip of the tornado” was, and Webb helped them realize that it’s a spiral galaxy that is far more distant.