When a human is a baby, it has a mass of a few kilos and eats milk. When a star is a baby, it has a mass of an octillion tons and eats sandwiches a trillion kilometers across. Don't believe me? Well good, because I'm being a little metaphorical. But still, this newly released Hubble image backs me up:
Isn't that gorgeous? You can get a bigger version, or a huge 3873 x 3943 pixel image. But what is it? It's a view of M43, a part of the vast Orion nebula complex, separated a bit from the more famous Orion Nebula. Like its big brother, stars are forming here... and I can show you how I know.
Just below and to the right of the bright star near the top of the image, you can see a star that has an odd shape. When zoomed in, as shown here, ...
