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Horsehead Nebula (NGC 2024)
  میغ ِ سر ِ اسب، ~ ِ اسب-سر  
miq-e sar-e asb, ~ asbsar
Fr.: nébuleuse de la Tête de Cheval  

A huge → dark cloud of → interstellar dust that is shaped like a horse’s head. It is luminous at its edges because it is in front of the bright → emission nebula IC 434. Its height and width are about 5
and 2.5 → light-years respectively. It is located at a distance of about 1500 light-years in the constellation → Orion. Also known as Barnard 33.

See also: → horse; → head;
→ nebula.