#PPOD: More than a century after the first photographs of the Orion Nebula, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed something extraordinary in this familiar stellar nursery: young stars surrounded by gas and dust disks. These structures, known as protoplanetary disks or proplyds, contain material that may eventually assemble into planets. Credit: NASA, C. R. O'Dell, and S. K. Wong (Rice University)
— Open image attachment 1 of 1Swirling orange and blue interstellar gas and dust lit by bright young stars, showing filamentary tendrils and glowing knots of star-forming material with a black rectangular gap in the top-right corner.