The second image (middle) shows a view of the Horsehead Nebula in near-infrared light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which was featured as the telescope’s 23rd anniversary image in 2013.
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the ...
Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light. This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, ...
The Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula located about 2,030 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is estimated to be around 8,000 years old. The Horsehead Nebula, located in the ...
The nebula itself, the European Space Agency says, is a remnant of the formation of V380 Orionis, a newly born star formed in the area. When the Hubble space telescope first captured an image of ...
It's 30 years ago to the day that the Hubble telescope was launched - and to ... The larger object is the nebula NGC 2014; its companion is called NGC 2020. But astronomers have nicknamed the ...