Located 1350 Light Years away, this is the Flame Nebula, and it is located in the roughly around Orion's Belt . The Flame Nebula is an emission nebula which contains a young star cluster in the center of it. This was taken using a telescope at Mt. Cuba an old observatory which is in a pretty light polluted region but the picture still came out okay.
I love photos of the edges of our universe, this is a great one! Have you seen the book Cosmos?
I got that book when I was a kid, I think I still have it. It is a great book, and now I think about it. It probably influenced my decision to get an undergraduate degree in Astrophysics. I am really excited to see what the James Webb Telescope brings back when it goes up to replace Hubble.