What newborn stars in the Orion Nebula really look like: it's not quite what you might imagine (photo).

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning photograph of two newborn stars located in the famous Orion Nebula, approximately 1300 light-years away from us. The Orion Nebula is the closest region of star formation to Earth, housing hundreds of newborn stars known as protostars, according to Space.

The new image from the Hubble telescope reveals two protostars named HOPS 150 and HOPS 153. The first one actually consists of two protostars that will eventually form a typical binary star system. These two newborn stars orbit each other, surrounded by a disk of material that they use to gain mass and grow.

HOPS 150 is located in the upper right corner of the image and resembles a golden-red butterfly spreading its wings. The "wings," which are the outflow of strong radiation from the two protostars, are divided by a dark line. This line represents a cloud of gas and dust that is over 2000 times greater than the distance between the Sun and Earth (which is estimated at 150 million km). It is from this cloud that the protostars draw material for their growth and evolution. According to astronomers from the European Space Agency, these protostars are in the process of transforming into ordinary stars, similar to the other protostar HOPS 153.

This protostar can be seen on the left side of the photograph, appearing as a long, bright, colorful jet of gas. In fact, the protostar HOPS 153 itself is not visible in this image; only the jet it emits can be seen. Newborn stars eject such jets of material into space, consisting of gas that did not become part of the forming star.

Astronomers indicate that the protostar HOPS 153 is much younger than HOPS 150 and is still within the remnants of the cold molecular gas cloud from which it was formed.

The jet of protostar HOPS 153 and its surrounding environment will change as the star evolves and ejects material and radiation that heat the interstellar gas. This process can significantly influence the formation of new stars near HOPS 153 and may even slow its own growth and mass accumulation.

Additionally, in the foreground of the Hubble telescope image, two very bright stars can be seen positioned in front of the Orion Nebula.