 This is the giant Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The image covers an area with objects that span about 75 light years. It holds a number of beautiful and well-known nebula, including of course the Orion nebula itself in the upper right. The brightest three stars on the left are the three stars that make up Orion's belt. The top star is Minotaka, about 900 light years away, but the middle star is Alnolam. It is a blue-white supergiant around 1,300 light years away. The lowest star is Alnatak. It is only 700 light years away. So you can see that these three stars are in line with the Orion cloud, but not a part of it. Below Alnatak is the flame nebula, an emission nebula in filaments of dark brown dust. Just to the right of Alnatak is the famous horse head nebula. Moving over and up to the Orion nebula, we also see the running man nebula just to the left of Orion. This Hubble mosaic of the Orion nebula covers 24 light years across and reveals numerous features that reside within this nearby intense star-forming region. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in the image. The Trapezean open star cluster contains hundreds of brand new stars. The first of these trapezean stars were discovered by Galileo. They got their name because the first stars looked like a trapezoid. As we scan the outer edges of the nebula, you can see the illuminated walls of the Orion cavern, along with beautiful elongated jets created by nearby stars being born.