Hubble snaps a nebula's free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule

Travel 7,000 light-years into a Hubble Space Telescope telescope view of the Westerhout 5 nebula. A free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule (frEGG) can be seen in the image. freGG's are "regions of gas that are sufficiently dense that they photoevaporate less easily than the less compact gas surrounding them," according to the European Space Agency (ESA).

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sahai | edited by Space.com's [Steve Spaleta](https://twitter.com/stevespaleta)