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Recent images of the Horsehead Nebula are the sharpest ... top of the “horse’s mane” or edge of this iconic nebula in a whole ...
The new images show the Horsehead Nebula as turbulent waves of gas rising from the western side of Orion B, a star-forming molecular cloud located 1,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...
This brand new image shows the Horsehead Nebula ... We also got to see mesmerising images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. It's one of the the best-known examples of a ...
the first-ever space telescope designed to study the dark universe. The images show spiral galaxies and the Horsehead Nebula. Photo: ESA ...
The moniker Gum 40 comes from the work of the Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum. In 1955 he established the Gum catalog of 84 emission nebulas in the southern sky, including this one. RELATED ...