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Title

Horsehead Nebula, 1900

Description

The Horsehead nebula is a dark interstellar cloud of dust and non-luminous gas situated 1,600 light years away in the direction of constellation Orion. This photographic image was made on January 25, 1900 by Isaac Roberts (1829-1904), an amateur astronomer.

Subject

  • Horsehead Nebula
  • Nebula

Credits

Royal Astronomical Society, Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System

Type

Photographic

Associated Lesson

X-ray Impact

This material is based upon work supported by NASA under Grant Nos. NNX09AD33G and NNX10AE80G issued through the SMD ROSES 2009 Program.

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