Humanoid figure in Orion nebula

[popster1]

When I saw today's TPOD (Electric Fires of Creation, 30 Dec 2008) the thing that caught my eye was the human-like shape in the upper left. It's reminiscent of some of the rock art pictures described on this site.

[kc0itf]

I see it too... now that you mention it. Makes you wonder just what our ancestors saw way back when!?

[mharratsc]

I see it as more of a figure-eight, with a band of dust in a flat disk around the pinch in the middle. Beyond that (towards the bottom of the page) appreas to be a larger 'inverted bell' of plasma not as energetic as at the pinch.

I might go so far as to suggest that this is a galaxy being born? Dust being pulled in by the electromagnetic field around the z-pinch, double layers around each of the lobes, inner lobe and outer lobe. There are already formed stars in the cloud, but is it possible that a 'cloud full of stars' could go on to become a galaxy, rather than a galactic z-pinch that later expelled stars?

My apologies for my lack of artistic soul, but I'm curious if any of the theory specialists perceive that a galaxy can be born after it's stars are?