The very young star named LL Ori appears poised for battle with a glowing shield raised in the midst of its parent cloud of gas and dust, the Orion Nebula. The bright arc on the star’s right is actually a shock front where the fast-moving, energetic outflows from the young star are colliding with slower gas from the heart of the nebula, located beyond the image to the lower right. The newly formed star is just beginning to carve out a place for itself, and in the busy star-forming region of the Orion Nebula it’s not alone—in the distance to the upper right, another young star displays a similar bow-shaped shock front. #Hubble #StarBirth #OrionNebula #nebula #StarFormation #stars Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. ALT-TEXT: An overall misty, impressionistic image highlighting a very small portion of a larger gas and dust nebula. Wispy gas is concentrated on the right side of the image, with black space on the left. At the center one bright point stands out, with a distinct arc of yellow-orange to its right and more diffuse orange gas streaming away to its upper left. In the distance, a fainter star shows a similar bright arc to its right. Both arcs appear like shields or umbrellas put up against a wind coming from the right. White gas is concentrated in the lower right of the image, becoming more diffuse as it moves left. The white gas is broken by a dark area, possibly an absence of gas, midway up the image, appearing like a pathway to the central star. The upper right of the image is an indistinct orange-yellow cloud. A few other isolated stars appear as small orange points of light through the misty gas, but do not display the arc shape.