Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Flame Nebula  ·  IC 434  ·  Orion B
Horsehead Nebula, jprejean
Horsehead Nebula
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Horsehead Nebula

Horsehead Nebula, jprejean
Horsehead Nebula
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Horsehead Nebula

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The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion.The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion molecular cloud complex. It appears within the southern region of the dense dust cloud known as Lynds 1630, along the edge of the much larger, active star-forming H II region called IC 434.

The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 422 parsecs or 1,375 light-years from Earth.
Processed from FITs subframes in from Telescope Live using PixInsight.  Captured at El Sauce Observatory, In Chile

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Horsehead Nebula, jprejean