@AkaSci It’s a bipolar reflection nebula & yes, I’d say that it’s illuminated by a central protostar embedded in a disk.

What’s weird is that the star in the middle is visible: normally with edge-on disks the midplane extinction is so high, you can’t see the central source in the near-IR.

It could just be a chance superposition, but it’s reddened & that even weirder red line of H2 makes me wonder. We have no idea what that is at the moment: it’s bizarre.