An orange and blue jet of material slashes diagonally through caverns of orange and gray colored gas and dust.

Stellar jet in the the Orion B molecular cloud complex

This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It's inside a turbulent birthing ground for new stars known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away.

Credits: NASA/ESA