Gum 15 Wall Art including Frame canvas Nearly a twin in size

Nearly a twin in size to Neptune

The famous Horsehead nebula appears in this image as a faint bump on the lower right side of the vertical dust ridge

birthing many stars within its clouds of cold hydrogen

The intense radiation from these stars heats up the cloud

Together with five neighbouring bubbles

Gum 15 Wall Art including Frame canvas Nearly a twin in sizeThe smokey black silhouette in this new image is part of a large, sparse cloud of partially ionised hydrogen an HII region known as Gum 15. In wide field images this nebula appears as a striking reddish purple clump dotted with stars and slashed by opaque, weaving dust lanes. This image homes in on one of these dust lanes, showing the central region of the nebula. These dark chunks of sky have seemingly few stars because lanes of dusty material are