The image is a false color composite in which light detected at different wavelengths produces the various hues of blue, green, orange, and red. Captured by Hubble's ultraviolet and visible-light cameras, swirls of green reveal hydrogen and sulfur gas heated by intense ultraviolet radiation from the Trapezium's stars while wisps of red and orange indicate infrared light from illuminated clouds containing carbon-rich molecules.

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