The telescope captured an incredibly intricate, close-up view of one of the most famous celestial objects.
The Webb Space Telescope has given us another cosmic treat. The young observatory captured a closer look of the ethereal clouds of dust and gas that form a nearby nebula, illuminated by a companion star in the constellation Orion.
Located a mere 1,375 light-years away, the Horsehead Nebula is shaped like a celestial horse galloping across the clouds in a starry dream. In the latest observations of the iconic nebula, Webb captured the sharpest infrared image to date of a zoomed-in portion of the Horsehead Nebula, according to the European Space Agency.
The image shows part of the sky in the constellation Orion, in the western side of a dense region known as the Orion B molecular cloud. The Horsehead Nebula is peaking its head through the bottom of the image, glowing in the light provided by a nearby hot star (which is shown at the top of the image).
