This is an extremely mind-boggling image, there is a lot going on here. So first, one has to keep in mind that this is a composite with images from different w

This is an extremely mind-boggling image, there is a lot going on here. So first, one has to keep in mind that this is a composite with images from different wavelengths (exposure time 12.5h), so there could be some artefacts from processing. Now to the fun part. It is a deep field image i.e. a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground The focus is on the galaxy cluster (SMACS 0723) approx. 4.7 billion light years away (incidentally, earth's very age) The stars causing clear diffraction spikes[0] are way in the foreground ... but the "reddish fuzzy twirled objects" are lensed through the galaxy cluster itself revealing what is way way back (the "redder the farer") --- that's where the NIRCam of the JWST now gives us some really juicy details of galaxies 13 (!) billions light years away, only a couple 100.000 years after the Big Bang. Compare this to the faint Hubble image [1]! For anyone irritated by the distortions: gravitational lensing can cause a lot of weird patterns e.g. a "Einstein Cross"[2] [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike [1]https://i.redd.it/9uyhwijeo0b91.gif https://i.redd.it/9uyhwijeo0b91.gif [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Cross https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Cross