This dark nebula, made of dust and super-cold gas, lies in the constellation Orion the Hunter. You'll need a dark observing site and a large telescope, something like an 11-inch Celestron. Good luck!

As I said before, you could spend a lifetime exploring Orion on his own, but we have a whole universe to explore together, so we best get a ...

Located a mere 1,375 light-years away, the Horsehead Nebula is shaped like a celestial horse galloping ... as the Orion B molecular cloud. The Horsehead Nebula is peaking its head through the ...

Get on the horse and ride This week’s large-telescope target is the famous Horsehead Nebula in Orion the Hunter. Because it occupies the 33rd slot on American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard ...