{"id":42558,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/42558-the-horsehead-nebula-12-17-19","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/42558","headline":"The Horsehead Nebula • 12/17/19","content":"\u003cp\u003eNASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape.  Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years \"tall\", the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is visible only because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glowing red emission nebula IC 434.  Stars are forming within the dark cloud. Contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star, is at the lower left of the full image.  The featured gorgeous color image combines both narrowband and broadband images recorded using several different telescopes.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhoto by Mark HansonMartin PughSSROPROMPTCTIONSF\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:\n\nSculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape.  Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years \"tall\", the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is visible only because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glowing red emission nebula IC 434.  Stars are forming within the dark cloud. Contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star, is at the lower left of the full image.  The featured gorgeous color image combines both narrowband and broadband images recorded using several different telescopes.\n\n\n\nPhoto by Mark HansonMartin PughSSROPROMPTCTIONSF","published_at":"2019-12-17T12:47:29-08:00","updated_at":"2026-07-07T18:04:22-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"Specola-","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/298285-specola"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with Specola on Kudos365. View their photo published Dec/17/2019 on Science - Tech - Astronomy. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"photo","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/77f8c51c-cf16-4cb5-a722-74dd66ea7c30.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","likes_count":7,"comments_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Science - Tech - Astronomy","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/986-science-tech-astronomy"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/42558-the-horsehead-nebula-12-17-19","headline":"The Horsehead Nebula • 12/17/19","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/77f8c51c-cf16-4cb5-a722-74dd66ea7c30.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Specola-","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/298285-specola"},"datePublished":"2019-12-17T12:47:29-08:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":7}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Science - Tech - Astronomy","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/986-science-tech-astronomy"}]}}