In a sense, yes. The question is, what is really going on here -- whether in the Pelican or Eagle or Orion or Lagoon or any of the other star forming regions imaged by Hubble -- and now other telescopes. Are we seeing gas and dust simply being "eaten away" or is something more complex going on, such as the ejection of nascent stars from their clouds of formation?

The image of the tendrils associated with the Pelican you've posted is the first one I've seen that shows what look like bow shocks ahead of some of the stars. This implies substantial velocity -- something is moving very fast, but what? Is it the stars and their trailing cloud-matter?

Seems to me it would be fairly easy to find out. I wonder who is working on it.

Cheers, BR Felix