 This beautiful stellar nursery is called the Serpents Nebula. It's a reflection nebula nearly 1,300 light-years away. In the upper right we have a young star named HBC 672. It's a sun-like star surrounded by a debris ring of dust, rock, and ice. The disk is too small and too distant to be seen, even by Hubble. But its shadow is projected large upon the cloud in which the star was born. The presence of a shadow means that the disk is being viewed nearly edge-on. In this Hubble image, the feature nicknamed the Bat Shadow spans approximately 200 times the length of our solar system.