NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may be a bit older than its successor, but it's still delivering some amazing images of the universe.
The European Space Agency refers to it as a "Herbig-Haro object," which is a glowing cloud that surrounds stars as they are born.
The Herbig-Haro objects are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas are ejected from newborn stars.
The image of the object is amazing.
One of the most studied objects in space is the enormous Orion Nebula, which is only about 1000 light years away from Earth. It can be seen from the ground.
Although it's been photographed on a lot of occasions, this latest image is actually a combination of 520 exposures, showing an amazing amount of detail.
The outflows can be seen as gracefully curving structures at the top and bottom of the image. The large scale flow of gas and dust from the core distorts them into sinuous curves.
It's not possible for most of us to muster that kind of prose for our significant others, and less for objects further away than we could ever hope to travel in our lifetimes.
Most of us aren't scientists.
There is a cloudscape in the constellation.
NASA has released an image of the most distant star ever seen.
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