Left: rusty-orange, white, and light green billowing cloud with several bright-white ringed with pink stars at its center. Right: Blue-white cloud with several bright-white stars at its center. Orange-yellow cloud glows top right.

Hubble’s Visible and Infrared Views of the Trapezium

A few young stars shine through dense clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula’s Trapezium embedded cluster, 1,500 light-years from Earth. The left image is taken in visible light; the right image is taken in infrared light.

Credits: NASA, C.R. O'Dell and S.K. Wong (Rice University)