the easternmost of Orion’s famous three-star belt and part of the vast Orion molecular cloud, the Horsehead Nebula is the closest giant star-forming region to Earth. While Webb’s image of the ...

Named for its stallion-like silhouette, the iconic Horsehead Nebula lies roughly 1,300 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Orion. Its billowing mane of gaseous plumes is illuminated ...

This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula: Believed to be the ...