Behold this new hi-res (false-color) image of the "mane" of the Horsehead Nebula taken by JWST's NIRCam Camera.
The Nebula, 1300 light years away, was formed from a collapsing interstellar cloud of material and is illuminated by a nearby star.
The region with the blue clouds contains cold, molecular hydrogen, not yet eroded by UV light from nearby stars. The red photodissociation region contains atomic hydrogen gas and dust, above which lies ionized gas.
