Composite J‐ (blue), H‐ (green), and K_s‐ (red) band VLT NIR image of RCW 38. The overexposed bright star is the O5 star IRS 2, and the overexposed ﹩\textsf{X}﹩‐shaped nebulosity at ~﹩08^{\mathrm{h}\,}59^{\mathrm{m}\,}04^{\mathrm{s}\,}﹩, ﹩-47^{\circ }30^{\prime }40^{\prime \prime }﹩ near the center of the image is the IRS 1 ridge (Smith et al. 1999). The gray‐scale version of this figure is only the K_s‐band image.