NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope offered a view of a “cosmic lightshow” with its latest image of a multistar system released by the space agency.

The image of FS Tau released on Monday shows FS Tau A and FS Tau B as the 2.8 million-year-old system is surrounded by gas and dust in space.

Welcome to the cosmic lightshow! ⭐

This new Hubble view shows the star system FS Tau. The bright object near the middle is FS Tau A, and the one to the far right (hidden by a dark lane of dust) is a newly forming star, FS Tau B: https://t.co/3GyZgffPgd pic.twitter.com/8OSV4c3RK5

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NASA says the brighter object in the image, which appears like a star, is FS Tau A, while the object “to the far right obscured by a dark, vertical lane of dust” is FS Tau B.

“FS Tau B is a newly forming star, or protostar, surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, a pancake-shaped collection of dust and gas leftover from the formation of the star that will eventually coalesce into planets. The thick dust lane, seen nearly edge-on, separates what are thought to be the illuminated surfaces of the flared disk,” the space agency said in a blog post on Monday.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space by NASA in 1990. Since its launch, the telescope has been capturing images of the deep corners of space while also adding to scientists’ understanding of the universe.

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The space agency has released hundreds of images from the Hubble telescope in the three decades since it was launched from Earth.

In addition to the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA has also released images captured from the James Webb Space Telescope, which has more advanced technology and was launched in December 2021. Images from the Webb telescope have been released since July 2022.