The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, and its companion, the Flame Nebula, sit near the star Alnitak in Orion’s Belt. Today, we know that the Horsehead is a dark, light-gobbling nebula ...

The dark Horsehead Nebula, with the red emission nebula behind it and the blue reflection nebula... [+] where new stars live at its base. Image credit: Ken Crawford, under a c.c.a.-s.a.-3.0 license.

Detailed new images taken by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope show the sharpest images of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula which was discovered more than a century ago.

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 ...

Another example of a dark nebula is the Horsehead Nebula located in the Orion constellation. The large, dark molecular cloud is so named because it appears to be shaped like a horse's head.

The Horsehead Nebula is what is known as a dark nebula. This means that the material therein is so dense that it blocks the light. In the visible light spectrum, this means that we cannot see what ...

The Horsehead Nebula, a dark cloud of cosmic dust resembling a horse's head, is silhouetted against a veil of bright nebulosity named IC 434. More glowing gas and dust clouds are visible to the ...

And if the Snake and Pipe aren’t enough, they’re also part of a large nebular complex called the Dark Horse Nebula, which covers a generous 10° by 10°. Up Next Previous. Next.

Giant wispy clouds of gas and space dust rise to heights of 5-light years "tall" in this new image of the Horsehead Nebula that comes to us courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Even early popular references don’t seem to agree on what to call it. In 1922, a book called Astronomy for Young Folks referred to it as the “Dark Horse Nebula.” But the more familiar “Horsehead ...

He had finally tamed the Horsehead Nebula, an object whose fame has since grown, spurred by an era of multi-billion-dollar space telescopes and advanced instruments for amateur astronomers. Over a ...