Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  IC 4592  ·  IC 4601  ·  The star νSco  ·  The star ψOph  ·  The star ω1Sco  ·  The star ω2Sco
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IC 4592 - Blue Horsehead Nebula, Darius Kopriva
IC 4592 - Blue Horsehead Nebula
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IC 4592 - Blue Horsehead Nebula

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IC 4592 - Blue Horsehead Nebula, Darius Kopriva
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IC 4592 - Blue Horsehead Nebula

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For me, the Blue Horsehead Nebula is one of the most beautiful reflection nebula in the night sky and also one of my favorite deepsky objects.

The nebula is cataloged as IC 4592 and spans about 40 light years, lying about 400 light years away toward the constellation Scorpius along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. IC 4592 is fainter but covers an angularly greater region than the better known Horsehead Nebula of Orion. The star that predominantly illuminates and heats the dust is Nu Scorpii, visible as the reddened star left of center.

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IC 4592 - Blue Horsehead Nebula, Darius Kopriva