Hubble's Latest Image Release Is So Beautiful, It Should Be Illegal Just audacity. The absolute cheek of it. Here you were, just minding your own mundane business, and then Hubble had to come along and remind you that our Universe is jaw-droppingly, mind-blowingly, sickeningly gorgeous.
What you're looking at is a nebula around 4,900 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini. It's named AFGL 5180, and it's part of a vast molecular cloud complex named Gem OB1. Such thick molecular clouds are where stars are born, and AFLG 5180 is no exception. It's spectacularly lit from within by a very young, hot star that's violently disturbing the space around it as it grows, carving out vast cavities in the gas cloud.