Horsehead & Flame nebula in IR.

This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the world’s largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion.
Slightly tweaked by me in CS4.

Credit ESO

Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

28 x 2 minute frames.
I need a lot more subs on this one.
I am actually amazed that anything came out on this, I couldn't even see this feature in the scope!

Below is a crop of an unprocessed single frame.

Here's the 32 bit tiff file straight out of DSS. If you fancy having a go at processing the image, be my guest. Let me know how you get on.
Beware: the file is over 95Mb.