The central star has burned a “blister” into the center of this beautiful nebula allowing us to see some of the features behind it. A reflection nebula is superimposed over an emission nebula. Note the swarm of small, dimmer stars surrounding the central star. They are quite young, some only about 1 million years old.

Takahashi CCA-250 Astrograph with an ST11000 camera. F/5 LRGB (30/7minB/W,7/5minbin2x2RGB)