Hubble captures stunning stellar duo in Orion Nebula 1,450 light-years away - Fox News

The NASA and European Space Agency telescope snapped the stars, which lie in the Orion Nebula, a region of stellar formation located around 1,450 light-years away from Earth.

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Patchy gas and dust of the Orion Nebulae are seen throughout the image.

The data at infrared and visible wavelengths were layered to reveal details of the area.

Notably, the diffraction spikes that surround the brightest stars of the image were formed when an intense point source of light interacted with the four vanes inside Hubble that support the telescope’s secondary mirror.

In this April 13, 2017, photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.