Horsehead Nebula
At a glance
- Type
- Nebula
- Distance
- Milky Way
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- Red
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- It was first spotted in 1888 by Williamina Fleming on a photograph taken at Harvard.
- It sits in Orion, just south of Alnitak, one of the three stars of Orion's Belt.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q14271 · All space objects · All entries