The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photographed the cloud image around the Gerbig-Aro object HH 505 in the Orion Nebula.
ESA reports this, Ukrinform reports.
The photo was taken by the ACS (Advanced Camera for Surveys) camera.
Gerbig-Aro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars. They are formed when stellar wind or gas streams from these newborn stars create shock waves that collide with nearby gas and dust at high speeds.
In the case of HH 505, these streams originate from star IX Ori, located at the outskirts of the Orion Nebula, about 1,000 light-years from Earth.
The streams themselves can be seen as gracefully curved structures at the top and bottom of this image.
The Orion Nebula is a dynamic region of dust and gas forming thousands of stars and is the closest massive star forming region to Earth.
As Ukrinform reports, the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope photographed the middle of the globular star cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation Sagittarius.
Photo: ESA