From this article: https://www.engadget.com/science/space/new-webb-telescope-photos-show-off-the-exposed-cranium-nebula-235609619.html?src=rss
See also these related communities:
From this article: https://www.engadget.com/science/space/new-webb-telescope-photos-show-off-the-exposed-cranium-nebula-235609619.html?src=rss
See also these related communities:
Do I recall correctly that you can tell the objects in the foreground from the background based on the fact that they had that 6-pointed star feature?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/ includes you can easily identify the points of light that are stars contained within our own Milky Way by their diffraction spikes, whereas the fainter, more distant, extended objects definitively do not possess them. in reference to a Hubble photo.
That is my understanding but I am not an expert.