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Horse-shaped nebula gets its close-up in new photos by NASA’s Webb telescope
These glamour shots can help refine astronomers’ understanding of the nebula, which acts as a nursery for big stars to brew. Horsehead is a favorite target of space observatories including the ...
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Euclid's First Deep Fields Images Offer Glimpse Into 'Dark Universe'
Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...
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See New Images of the Horsehead Nebula, Captured in Striking Detail by the James Webb Telescope
Named for its stallion-like silhouette, the iconic Horsehead Nebula lies ... Prior to these new portraits, the nebula has been photographed by other space telescopes—first by Hubble in 2013 ...
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This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: See the Horsehead Nebula
In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and try to observe a celestial object that’s quite difficult to see — the Horsehead Nebula. This dark nebula, made of dust and super-cold ...
Bubble Nebula: Spanning 7 light-years across, and about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, the Bubble Ne…
From the iconic 'Pillars of Creation' to the vivid colours of the Lagoon Nebula, check out these 7 astonishing photos of ...