The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, is made of dense, cold clumps of collapsing interstellar material that are very slowly dissipating. Lighter gas around the horse has already eroded ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest images yet of the Horsehead Nebula — a vast cloud of equine-looking gas rearing over the constellation Orion. Earning its name from the ...

Thanks to its 150mm focal length, I’m able to capture both IC 434 the Horsehead Nebula and NGC 2024 the Flame Nebula. The initial shot looks noisy, but editing the image makes both of them appea ...

the Orion Nebula, and the Horsehead Nebula. Planetary nebulae are generated from an expanding shell of gas surrounding an aging star. The Ring Nebula, the Little Dumbbell Nebula and the Owl Nebula ...

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...

The European Space Agency released full-color images captured by Euclid, the first-ever space telescope designed to study the dark universe. The images show spiral galaxies and the Horsehead Nebula.

A nice catch This week’s first large-scope object is planetary nebula NGC 2867 in Carina the Keel. Sir Patrick Moore included this object in his Caldwell catalog as number 90. You’ll find this ...