Gum 15 Wall Art including Frame canvas The famous Horsehead nebula appears

The famous Horsehead nebula appears in this image as a faint bump on the lower right side of the vertical dust ridge

Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Together with five neighbouring bubbles

It is being formed by an O star

the Milky Way

Gum 15 Wall Art including Frame canvas The famous Horsehead nebula appearsThe smokey black silhouette in this new image is part of a large, sparse cloud of partially ionised hydrogen an HII region known as Gum 15. In wide field images this nebula appears as a striking reddish purple clump dotted with stars and slashed by opaque, weaving dust lanes. This image homes in on one of these dust lanes, showing the central region of the nebula. These dark chunks of sky have seemingly few stars because lanes of dusty material are