esahubble_heic1307a April 19th, 2013
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
This new Hubble image, captured and released to celebrate the telescopes 23rd year in orbit, shows part of the sky in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). Rising like a giant seahorse from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33. This image shows the region in infrared light, which has longer wavelengths than visible light and can pierce through the dusty material that usually obscures the nebulas inner regions. The result is a rather ethereal and fragile-looking structure, made of delicate folds of gas very different to the nebulas appearance in visible light.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1307a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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