Discovery of the horse head Nebula

New view of space of Herschel Observatory on this shadowy head of iconic horse inward the circumstance of its environments. An image composed of wavelengths of 70 micron (blue), 100 microns (green) and (red) 250 microns, 4.5 x 1.5 lid. The figure comprises pointed northeast to the left alone of the figure, on the side of the southwest to the right.

Foggy horse head located at approximately 1,300 light-years away in the constellation of Orion and is a large part of the Orion molecular obscure difficult. The horse's head seems to acclivity higher up the gas surrounding and dust to the right of this scene, pointing the flame Nebula. Powerful radiation streaming from neonate aces fires up environing gas and debris, making it more bright glow of infrared sensitive eyes Herschel appears garden pink and lily-white inward this picture.

From left to right, the Pan covers also two other important sites that produced massive stars, NGC 2068 and NGC 2071. Extended networks of cold gas and dust loom on the stage in a red and yellow, cables, a few of which may have recently formed stars of low mass.