How to use IMSPLIT to split a color image into component images

Today I want to show you a handy little function, imsplit, for splitting color images into their components.
Also, for no reason other than WOW, I want to show one of the images just released by the James Webb Space Telescope program (home page, flickr galleries).
url = "https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52211883534_7fe30b9955_o_d.png";
imshow(rgb)
text(size(rgb,2),size(rgb,1),"Image credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScl",...
VerticalAlignment = "top",...
HorizontalAlignment = "right")
Anyway, back to imsplit. Long-time readers have seen me use code like this to split up color images (sometimes RGB, sometimes $L^* a^* b^*$) into component images:
L = lab(:,:,1);
a = lab(:,:,2);
b = lab(:,:,3);
See, for example, the posts about two-dimensional histograms (23-Dec-2010) and segmenting images in $(a^*,b^*)$ space (04-Feb-2011).
That code is not hard to write, but now I've become fond of using imsplit instead, just because it is a bit more compact, without sacrificing understandability. The function imsplit, introduced in release R2018b, is used this way:
url = "https://blogs.mathworks.com/images/steve/2010/mms.jpg";
lab = rgb2lab(candy);
[L,a,b] = imsplit(lab);
tiledlayout("flow")
nexttile
imshow(candy)

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imshow(L,[0 100])
title("L")

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imshow(a,[-90 90])
title("a")

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imshow(b,[-90 90])
title("b")
That's it, really. There's nothing more to it. Give it a try the next time you need to do this; it'll save you 2.7183 seconds.
Before I go, let's look at that Webb telescope image one more time, just because.
[R,G,B] = imsplit(rgb);
tiledlayout("flow")
nexttile
imshow(rgb)

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imshow(R)
title("R")

nexttile
imshow(G)
title("G")

nexttile
imshow(B)
title("B")
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