🌫️ Nebula
Horsehead Nebula
A dark cloud of dust shaped like a horse’s head.
- Distance
- 1,300 light-years away
Did you know?
- It lies in Orion, just below the belt, but it is too faint to see without a telescope.
- Its edges glow because a hot young star nearby lights it up.
Photographed or visited by
Hubble Space Telescope
Thirty-six years above the weather, and still working.
Different kinds of lightA picture taken in infrared light
More NASA photos of Horsehead NebulaStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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The Sun
Our star, an ordinary one that keeps everything here alive.
Betelgeuse
A red supergiant in Orion that will one day explode.
Alpha Centauri
The closest star system to the Sun.
Eta Carinae
A pair of giant stars, one of them about 90 times heavier than the Sun.
Mira
A red giant star racing through space with a tail like a comet.
Zeta Ophiuchi
A runaway star, flung out when its partner exploded.