An undulating cloudscape of orange, yellow, green, red, pink, and purple gas clouds fill the bottom three-quarters of the image. A bright-white star sits withing the clouds just below image center. Above that star, the gas cloud thins out and a cluster of bright blue-white stars is visible through the mist. Top quarter of the image is black with scattered stars and a rusty-orange-band of clouds at upper right.

NASA Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula

This image showcases both the visible-light and the infrared-light visualizations of the Orion Nebula. This view from the movie sequence looks down the “valley” leading to the star cluster at the far end. The left side of the image shows the visible-light visualization, which fades to the infrared visualization on the right. These two contrasting models derive from observations by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.

Credits: NASA, ESA, F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, J. DePasquale, L. Frattare, M. Robberto and M. Gennaro (STScI), and R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC)