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The famous Horsehead Nebula, situated in the Orion molecular cloud complex. Its official name is Barnard 33 and it is a dust protrusion in the Southern region of the dense dust cloud Lynds 1630, on the edge of the HII region IC 434. The distance of this region is about 1,400 light-years (430 pc). © ESO (European Southern Observatory) www.eso.org