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Horsehead nebula

(IC 434) A dark nebula in Orion located near the star Zeta (ζ) Orionis. It is seen as a dark distinctively shaped region silhouetted against the bright background of an emission (H II) nebula.
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Horsehead Nebula

[′hȯrs‚hed ′neb·yə·lə]
(astronomy)
A cloud of obscuring particles between the earth and a gaseous emission nebula in the constellation Orion.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Take NGC 2023 above--this complex mixture of reflection and emission nebula resides about 5 arcminutes from B33, the famous Horsehead Nebula, which draws more attention.
The Horsehead Nebula lies in the constellation Orion, about 1300 light-years away, and is a popular target for amateur and professional astronomers alike.
It's lack of light pollution - the scourge of astronomers elsewhere in crowded Britain - means the 155,000-acre wilderness is a regular spot for "Star Camps" Enthusiasts at the gatherings have taken stunning images of objects including the galaxy NGC4565, constellation Ursa Major, and Horsehead Nebula in Orion.
There is much that is beautiful and elegant in science; images of the Horsehead Nebula have been credited with capturing the public's imagination and support for the Hubble Space Telescope.
27 In which constellation would you find the dark Horsehead Nebula?
These photographs include the pinpoints of stellar light making up the M13 globular cluster, Venus transiting across the face of the sun, the Horsehead nebula, the Crab pulsar, and the tentacles of the Tarantula nebula.
QUESTION 15 - for 15 points: In which constellation is the Horsehead Nebula?
'In between the billions of stars there are dark, obscuring clouds in a variety of shapes, for example, the horsehead nebula.
Infrared images of the spectacular Horsehead Nebula, a large dust cloud 1,500 light years away in the constellation of Orion, have illuminated newly formed young stars embedded in the horse's "head".
Mr Johnstone closed his talk with a series of photographs taken using the method described, including images of M33, M51 and the Horsehead Nebula. He added that one of the main difficulties of film photography, as compared to modern CCD imaging, was the limited achievable dynamic range: it was very difficult, for example, to avoid burning out the nuclei of globular clusters if the outer cluster members were to be visible at all.
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