Flame in Orion's Belt Wall Art including Frame T-shirts or HII regions (pronounced “H-two”)

or HII regions (pronounced “H-two”)

Perhaps a cross-species celestial handshake is imminent

or bipolar (featuring two symmetric lobes of material)

Just how and when the rings formed remains one of our solar system's biggest mysteries

and its exterior was blasted away in an immense release of energy astronomers call a supernova

Flame in Orion's Belt Wall Art including Frame T-shirts or HII regions (pronounced “H-two”)This mosaic image taken by NASA's Wide field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features three nebulae that are part of the giant Orion Molecular Cloud. The image covers an area of the sky about three times as high and wide as the full moon (1. 5 by 1. 8 degrees). Included in this view are the Flame nebula, the Horsehead nebula and NGC 2023. Despite its name, there is no fire roaring in the Flame nebula. What makes this nebula shine is the bright blue