Captured in unprecedented detail, the image of the nebula focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane” that is about 0.8 light-years in width and roughly 1,300 light-years away from Earth.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured incredibly sharp images of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most iconic celestial bodies in the sky over Earth.

This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane.” It was taken with Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument). Mid ...

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.

This brand new image shows the Horsehead Nebula, which is around 1,500 light years away from Earth. The nebula was formed from a collapsing interstellar cloud, and gets its glow from a nearby hot ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released a new trove of images capturing the Orion nebula this week—the latest stunning images of the far reaches of space that the advanced ...

The latest images from Euclid, a European mission studying dark matter and dark energy, are spectacularly beautiful—and ...

NASA Webb Telescope This image shows three views of the Horsehead Nebula. Image left, released in November 2023, features the Horsehead Nebula as seen in visible light by ESA’s Euclid telescope ...

The world’s most powerful space telescope, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has just released the sharpest infrared images to date of the Horsehead Nebula, a small dark nebula in the constellation ...

A seed that flew around the moon and back will now grow into a tree at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, April 30, 2024: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured incredibly ...