New Hubble telescope image reveals giant cosmic ‘keyhole’ in the blackness of space

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a smoke-wreathed keyhole among the stars.

The telescope returned an image of a so-called “reflection nebula” around 1,350 light years in the constellation Orion. Reflection nebulae are only visible when illuminated from within, according to a European Space Agency blog post about the image, and in this case a newly born star provides that light.