A strophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a spectacular image of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) shining close to the dark shape of the Seahorse Nebula.

Detailed new images taken by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope show the sharpest images of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula which was discovered more than a century ago.

A Dark Horse in Space. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula because it appears as a dark silhouette against the background of bright, glowing gas and stars. The nebula is primarily composed of ...

The Pipe Nebula spans 8° and is made of dark dust clouds between us and the center of our galaxy. The Pipe is part of the even larger Dark Horse Nebula, which is more easily seen from southern ...

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.

One of the most famous telescopic views is of the Horsehead Nebula. It is hard to capture with our light pollution levels, but a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Summit on light pollution and birds provided ...