I found this pic on
Astronomy Picture of the Day. It is an area of the Carina Nebula environs.
I think it looks as though
we have been given the finger!
Maybe there is someone up there.
Explanation: This dense cloud of gas and dust is being deleted. Likely, within a few million years, the intense light from bright stars will have boiled it away completely. Stars not yet formed in the
molecular cloud's interior will then stop growing. The cloud has broken off of part of the greater
Carina Nebula, a star forming region about 8000
light years away. Newly formed stars are
visible nearby, their images reddened by blue light being preferentially scattered by the pervasive
dust. This
unusually-coloured image spans about two
light years and was taken by the orbiting
Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. This
Carina sub-cloud is particularly striking partly because its clear definition stimulates the human imagination (e.g. it could be perceived as a superhero flying through a cloud, arm up, with a saved person in tow below).