A Hubble Space Telescope view of a very young star (between 300, 000 and a million years of age) surrounded by material left over from the star's formation. The cool, reddish star is about one fifth the mass of our Sun.
By ASHESH DAS RUP
Location: M 42, Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Proplyd
Tags: Hubble, Space, Universe, Nebulae, ESA