Psalm 147:1-4
How good to celebrate our God in song;
how sweet to give fitting praise.
The Lord . . . heals the brokenhearted,
binds up their wounds,
Numbers all the stars,
calls each of them by name.
The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion.
A nebula (from Latin: “cloud”) is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases. A dark nebula is a type of interstellar cloud that is so dense that it obscures the light from the background emission or background stars.
First recorded in 1888 by Williamina Fleming at the Harvard College Observatory, the Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1500 light years from Earth. It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of the shape of its swirling cloud of dark dust and gases, which is similar to that of a horse’s head when viewed from Earth.
~Eowyn
