January 7-14, 2016: The Large Magellanic Cloud and open cluster NGC 2281 make nice targets for small-telescope owners, while the Horsehead Nebula awaits large-telescope owners.

This dark protrusion sits in front of emission nebula IC 434, which glows more faintly than the Flame Nebula. Once you think you’ve located the Horsehead, look 15′ to its northeast for NGC ...

The Horsehead Nebula, one of the most famous formations of the cosmos, has just been revealed in a stunning new light.. NASA released photos this week that give the equine-shaped feature a literal ...

Fleming proved Pickering's point. In addition to discovering the Horsehead Nebula, Fleming discovered 58 other gaseous nebulae, 10 novae, and more than 300 variable stars.

The famous Horsehead Nebula has been literally seen in an entirely different light, as NASA's Spitzer captures it in infrared. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor ...

In addition to the Horsehead itself, the image covers a number of well known objects such as the butterfly wing-like star formation sites NGC2068 and 2071, and the imposing Flame Nebula.

Before now, our best glimpse of the Horsehead Nebula looked like this (from a 2001 capture): And the new image in all its glory: More at Hubble Space Telescope.

The James Webb Telescope has zoomed in on the Horsehead Nebula, capturing slices of this stunning star-forming region close to Earth in an entirely new light.

NASA released high-resolution images of the Horsehead Nebula that were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on Monday.. The telescope produced sharp infrared images of the “horse’s mane ...

Giant wispy clouds of gas and space dust rise to heights of 5-light years "tall" in this new image of the Horsehead Nebula that comes to us courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Horsehead Nebula's dusty shape all but disappears in infrared wavelengths, as seen in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The Horsehead is a small part of the Orion Molecular Cloud ...