{"id":771362,"date":"2023-11-07T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771362"},"modified":"2023-11-07T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T13:15:00","slug":"euclids-first-images-the-horsehead-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771362","title":{"rendered":"Euclid&#039;s first images: the Horsehead Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 1375 light-years away, the Horsehead \u2013 visible as a dark cloud shaped like a horse\u2019s head \u2013 is the closest giant star-forming region to Earth. It sits just to the south of star Alnitak, the easternmost of Orion\u2019s famous three-star belt, and is part of the vast Orion molecular cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Many other telescopes have taken images of the Horsehead Nebula, but none of them are able to create such a sharp and wide view as Euclid can with just one observation. Euclid captured this image of the Horsehead in about one hour, which showcases the mission&#8217;s ability to very quickly image an unprecedented area of the sky in high detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Euclid\/Euclid_s_view_of_the_Horsehead_Nebula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more about Euclid\u2019s view of the Horsehead Nebula<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Euclid\/Euclid_s_first_images_the_dazzling_edge_of_darkness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more about Euclid&#8217;s first images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/11\/Euclid_s_first_images_the_Horsehead_Nebula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Euclid&#8217;s first images: the Horsehead Nebula<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion. At approximately 1375 light-years away, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}