“Fly” through the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s view of the Trifid Nebula. The video “floats” over the ridges of gas and dust and moves up toward Herbig-Haro 399, at the top of a brown cloud that resembles a head with horns.

The thinner, irregular line pointing left formed from the ejections of an actively forming star.

To its left is a small, faint pillar. Much of this pillar’s gas and dust has been blown away, but the densest material at the top persists.

Credit:

NASA, ESA, STScI, Leah Hustak (STScI), Christian Nieves (STScI). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI). Contributors: Subaru Telescope, R. Gendler. Acknowledgement: G. Bacon (STScI), J. Muzerolle (STScI), F. Summers (STScI)