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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.
Beautiful
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.