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 ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and try to observe a celestial object that’s quite difficult to see — the ...

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 ...

As I said before, you could spend a lifetime exploring Orion on his own, but we have a whole universe to explore together, so we best get a ...

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.

Spend three minutes getting lost in space. A video released by NASA this week shows the well-known Orion Nebula in a new way. The 3D visualization of the nebula allows the viewer to get a bird's ...

Trevor Mayes from Diss captured two nebulas on Tuesday night including the Horsehead Nebula. It is lit by the Alnitak star and is a vast cloud of gas and dust where new stars are born. The two nebula ...

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula ... and crabs), or where they appear in the sky (for example, the Orion Nebula). With the aid of high-powered telescopes, it's now known that ...

Orion Nebula: It is a cloud of dust and gas located in the constellation Orion. Thousands of stars are being born there. NGC 281: Dark, dense clumps of gas and dust known as 'Bok globules' can be ...