Zooming in on the Horsehead Nebula

This video, which shows the new infrared Hubble views of the Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33), zooms in on a portion of the sky in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). A 3D fly-through of the nebula concludes the film.

A scientific visualization of a flight into the infrared Horsehead is shown in the next segment of the film. Although not entirely correct, the computer graphics model aims to be reasonable from a scientific standpoint.

To commemorate the 23 years of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a new infrared image has been made public. This video combines ground-based images from the European Southern Observatory's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) with data from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.