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Cat's Paw Nebula

The Cat's Paw Nebula is one of the most active stellar nurseries in the sky, and dust hides most of its young stars.

Cat's Paw Nebula
Cat's Paw Nebula
Cat's Paw Nebula shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 40 × 40 cm
Cat's Paw Nebula shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 40 × 40 cm
Cat's Paw Nebula shown in a beamed room with a greige plaster wall above a long oak sideboard - scale render at 40 × 40 cm
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Material
Size (cm)
Frame
Specification
40 × 40 cm
3 mm Aluminium
No Frame
Mount Kit Included
Price
$140

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About this work

In July 2025 Webb marked its third year of science operations with a near-infrared look inside the Cat's Paw Nebula. NGC 6334 is a star-forming region about 4,000 light-years away in Scorpius. This frame is one section of it. John Herschel first glimpsed it from the Cape of Good Hope in June 1837, and the telescopes of the day showed him only the brightest toepad.

Blue patches glow at the centre, ringed by brown-orange dust. Either side of the bright patch at top centre, dark zones run short of stars; gaps like those mark dense foreground dust, home to stars still forming and blocking the light of the stars behind. Small red clumps lie scattered through the dust, redder than the yellow-white stars beside them. Each one marks massive star formation under way out of sight.

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Materials

Metal
The edge of a Madtag aluminium print, a thin bright line, floating clear of a dark wall.

Nothing between you and the picture.

  • The surface for work that wants light.
  • Colour at full strength; blacks hold their depth.
  • Sealed under gloss: no frame, no glazing.
  • 3 mm aluminium composite, floats clear of the wall.
Arrives flat, hanging system included
Paper
A Madtag print on a sheet of matte fine art paper, curling at one corner to show its thickness.

Hahnemühle, not poster paper.

  • When you want the best.
  • Unframed, it is Hahnemühle: photographs on Photo Rag 308, 100% cotton.
  • Painterly work on German Etching 310, mould-made and textured.
  • Over 300 gsm, printed as a pigment giclée.
Arrives rolled in a Madtag tube
Framed
The corner of a Madtag print in a black wood frame, the sheet flush against the moulding behind acrylic, no mount board.

For the wall you want finished.

  • Framed and finished; no trip to a framer.
  • A different print: 200 gsm coated silk, made as one piece.
  • Black, white or natural wood moulding.
  • Acrylic glazing, no mount board: the sheet fills the frame.
Arrives flat in its frame
Canvas
A Madtag print on stretched canvas with a solid black wrapped edge.

Nothing lost around the corner.

  • Occupies the room rather than hanging flat.
  • Stretched over a 40 mm deep FSC wood frame.
  • No glazing; the weave itself takes the light.
  • The picture stops at the face; edges solid black, always.
Arrives stretched and ready to hang
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