Pic of the Week: The Horsehead Nebula

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Image (Credit): The Horsehead Nebula courtesy of the Euclid mission. (ESA / Euclid / Euclid Consortium / NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

This week’s image is from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid telescope. It is the famous Horsehead Nebula in all its beauty.

Here is a little more about the image from ESA:

Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion. In Euclid’s new observation of this stellar nursery, scientists hope to find many dim and previously unseen Jupiter-mass planets in their celestial infancy, as well as young brown dwarfs and baby stars.