[/caption] The Horsehead nebula is a dark nebula that looks like a horse’s head! It is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud complex, and has the more correct, if boring, name Barnard 33 (being object number 33 in a catalog of dark nebulae, by Barnard). It is about 1500 light-years away, and is itself dark … Continue reading "Horsehead Nebula"