BARNARD 228

I don't know why, but this amazing piece of sky is poorly photographed, it's certainly fainter than some of the more popular lenses, but it's huge, it's detailed, and you can get a lot of data. It is a star-forming region dominated by hydrogen emissions and also by dark belts of gas and dust emission whose extinction resembles a wolf. The areas of star formation are dominated by young blue stars, while most of the background areas have a higher concentration of older orange stars.