The famous Onion Nebula is a vast complex of star making factories. 1500 light years from earth the onion displays its beauty in soft layers of space dust and gases floating and swirling to shape gently rolling hills and this tremendous canyon that take light fifteen years to travel across it. There are huge regions of odd shapes that are actually fledging solar systems. The entire nebula is illuminated and glowing with energy, nuclear fusion and radiation from a population behemoth stars.