Taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, it features the sharpest infrared image of the Horsehead Nebula captured to date-it is so zoomed in we can only see the mane.
...the image covers an area that is nearly one light-year across, or about 7.6 trillion km.
The Horsehead Nebula is fairly close to Earth, about 1,300 light-years, within our galaxy. The rest of the objects in this image are distant galaxies.
Astronomers estimate that the Horsehead only has about 5 million years left before it disintegrates.
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