This is the Flame Nebula on the Orion belt thingie or whatever you call it.
I wasn't the one who took the image, but I was the one who made the request to have the photo taken.
That is, I told the person at this observatory in New Mexico from my school in Michigan to take a picture in the sky at a certain place, at a certain time, and have the lens open for a certain amount of time.
Then I used software to combine the different photos taken with different filters (Clear, Green, Blue, and Red) and had to align them and all that.
I thought the way it looked was too blah, so I played around with the colors a bit and came up with a nice violet color.
I put it as a photo manipulation because I had to align the different filtered photos together and changed the color a bit, but I dunno. meh.