These images of the Cocoon Nebula (also known as IC 5146) show a heart-shaped nebula in a region in the Milky Way galaxy where new stars are forming. X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal a cluster of new stars that are just poking through the stunning nebula. Young stars, like those in the Cocoon Nebula, are very active and give off large amounts of X-rays that Chandra can detect. The nebula itself glows from a combination of light that is emitted by the young stars as well as light that is reflected off the dust in the nebula. An optical-light image from astrophotographers Michael Adler and Barry Wilson, as well as infrared light data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, are also included.