Captured in unprecedented detail, the image of the nebula focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane” that is about 0.8 light-years in width and roughly 1,300 light-years away from Earth ...

Tuesday, April 30, 2024: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured incredibly sharp images of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most iconic celestial bodies in the sky over Earth.

Horsehead Nebula / NASA, ESA, CSA, K. Misselt (University of Arizona) and A. Abergel (IAS/University Paris-Saclay, CNRS) With a silhouette that reflects its name, the Horsehead Nebula is one of ...

In photodissociation regions (PDRs) like the Horsehead Nebula, ultraviolet radiation from young, massive stars creates hot regions of gas and dust between the ionized gas surrounding the star and ...

The world’s most powerful space telescope, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has just released the sharpest infrared images to date of the Horsehead Nebula, a small dark nebula in the constellation ...

The second image (middle) shows a view of the Horsehead Nebula in near-infrared light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which was featured as the telescope’s 23rd anniversary image in 2013.

The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, is a dark nebula located in the constellation Orion. It appears as a distinctively shaped cloud of dust and gas, resembling the profile of a horse's ...

This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane.” It was taken with Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument). Mid ...

The Horsehead Nebula, one of the most famous formations of the cosmos, has just been revealed in a stunning new light. NASA released photos this week that give the equine-shaped feature a literal ...

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Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released a new trove of images capturing the Orion nebula this week—the latest stunning images of the far reaches of space that the advanced ...