 This image by the James Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared camera features the central region of the chameleon-1 dark molecular cloud, 630 light-years away. The wispy blue cloud material in the center is illuminated in the infrared by the orange glow of the young protostar CED-110IRS-4 in the upper left. The light from numerous background stars, seen as orange dots behind the cloud, is used to detect molecules in ices in the cloud. The two background stars used in this study are circled. The molecules in the ices absorb the starlight passing through them. This creates a dip in the light that reaches us for each element in the ice. In addition, an international team of astronomers were able to identify frozen forms of a wide range of complex organic molecules such as ammonia, methane, and methanol. These findings provide insights into the initial dark chemistry stage of the formation of ice on the interstellar dust grains that will grow into the centimeter-sized pebbles from which planets and possibly life may form.