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A New Look at the Horsehead Nebula for Hubble’s 23rd Anniversary

Friday, April 19, 2013 11:00

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A new view of the Horsehead Nebula in infrared. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).

Here’s the iconic Horsehead Nebula as we’ve not seen it before. As the Hubble team so poetically puts it, the nebula looks “like an apparition rising from whitecaps of interstellar foam.” The new image of the Horsehead was photographed in celebration of the 23rd anniversary of the launch of Hubble aboard the space shuttle Discovery, on April 24, 1990.

Can you believe the Hubble Space Telescope has been in space for 23 years? … and it’s been churning out great images for almost 20 years since it was fixed in space during the first Hubble servicing mission in 1993.
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