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The bright emission at left was already known before we looked, but we got a deeper image that connected it to the central source in the middle. The green shows more of the nebula at infrared wavelengths. Below is a zoom of the inner cloud at infrared wavelengths:

This was taken by Padgett and collaborators using the Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS camera (published in Astronomical Journal, vol. 117, p. 1490, in 1999). The white bar marks 2". Note, the white bar in the top image marks 60". So this is zoomed by about a factor of 30. HST takes some awesome pictures!