The Witch Head Nebula 🧙♀️
It sits next to bright Rigel in Orion. You can see a little bit of the star glow at top right.
Being a reflection nebula, this thing doesn’t glow in pink or blue like emission nebulae do. All you’re seeing is star light bouncing off “dust”. Which is this case is more
like smoke; very fine particles mixed in with the usual gas.
If you look carefully, you’ll see a scattering of background galaxies dotted around the image.
