When the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope isn’t capturing nebulas going haywire, it provides us with a mesmerizing look inside the Orion Nebula. More specifically, the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. The outflows you see around HH 505 originate from the star IX Ori, which lies on the outskirts of the Orion Nebula around 1,000 light-years from Earth.
The outflows can be seen as the gracefully curving structures at the top and bottom of this image. It was captured with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) by astronomers studying the properties of outflows and protoplanetary disks, revealing bright shockwaves formed by the outflows as well as slower moving currents of stellar material.
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The Orion Nebula is a dynamic region of dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. It is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth, making it one of the most scrutinized areas of the night sky and often a target for Hubble. This observation was also part of a spellbinding Hubble mosaic of the Orion Nebula, which combined 520 ACS images in five different colors to create the sharpest view ever taken of the region,” said NASA.
