Day 5 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Beyond the mane
Day 5 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: This image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures one of the sharpest infrared images to date of the Horsehead Nebula, and a night sky full of distant galaxies beyond. It shows a section of the sky in the constellation Orion, above the turbulent waves of dust and gas of the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33, which resides roughly 1,300 light-years away.
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