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Horsehead Nebula
Image Credit; Purnendu Gupta |
Dense black clouds resembling the bust of a horse tower over a backdrop of a glowing red veil. Like a black knight in chess. The gash of red across, billowing black rising with dabs of blues - gives rise to a magnificent, almost ominous scene. Nature's watercolor of a knight about to make its move in a celestial chess game at play.
The Horsehead nebula (Barnard 33) is a dark nebula in Orion. Among the night sky wonders I have seen - this is perhaps the closest resemblance of the object to its common name. But its existence was unknown till a hundred years after the discovery of the nebulosity.
