Spectacular – NASA’s Hubble Celebrates 23 Years: Sees Horsehead of a Different Color (Story/Image/Video)

by Gary Kopycinski on April 25, 2013

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Horsehead Nebula, Barnard 33. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory’s launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.