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Can I show you these mind-bogglingly amazing images from JWST of the Horsehead Nebula?!

The Horsehead Nebula is a famous dense cloud of gas protruding from the western side of part of the Orion molecular cloud, 1300 light-years away. This jutting pillar is made of thick clumps of material, meaning it's harder to erode by the hot winds from nearby stars than the surrounding gas. It just so happens to look like a horsehead from our perspective.

Using it's incredible near and far-IR cameras, JWST has imaged the top edge of the nebula to help astronomers better understand how gas and dust on the surface of cloud is being heated and evaporating. And the images are amazing!

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