The James Webb space telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of the Horsehead ... Orion, or The Hunter. Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the equine-shaped nebula ...

Named for its stallion-like silhouette, the iconic Horsehead Nebula lies roughly 1,300 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Orion. Its billowing mane of gaseous plumes is illuminated ...

Get on the horse and ride This week’s large-telescope target is the famous Horsehead Nebula in Orion the Hunter. Because it occupies the 33rd slot on American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard ...

February evenings offer some of the best conditions for viewing the famous winter constellations. This year they approach Mars from the east, ending the month with the Pleiades star cluster ...

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

Daniel Zantzinger (Skywatcher’s Guide) The most conspicuous constellation in the evening sky is Orion ... of the bright emission nebula IC 434, home of the horsehead nebula underneath ...

The Horsehead Nebula is a part of much larger complex in the constellation Orion. Known collectively as the Orion Molecular Cloud, it also houses other famous objects, such as the Great Orion Nebula.

The middle star in the dagger is actually not a star, but the Orion Nebula, which through a telescope is revealed to be a ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best “must-see” attractions in the Shamokin sky, and it’s even more impressive once you get to ...