Zooming in on The Horsehead Nebula (3D) | Hubble

Zooming in on The Horsehead Nebula (3D) | Hubble

This video zooms into part of the sky in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter), showing infrared Hubble observations of the Horsehead Nebula (otherwise known as Barnard 33). The video ends on a 3D fly-through of the nebula.

The video continues with a scientific visualization of a flight into the infrared Horsehead. The computer graphics model is intended to be scientifically reasonable, but not fully accurate. 

This infrared image was released to celebrate 23 years of the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. The data in this video come from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, supplemented by ground-based observations from the European Southern Observatory's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA).

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, the Hubble Heritage Team: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA); G. Bacon, T. Borders, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz 3D team, STScI); European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: April 19, 2013

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