This image was taken by Team ARO and shows the brilliant emission nebula so aptly named the Flame Nebula. It is a predominantly hydrogen emission nebula found in the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and is excited by the star Alnitak.
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This is color enhanced?
There's processing that is required to bring out the details from the raw data, but this isn't photoshopped to have colors that aren't naturally there.