If you were in a spacecraft at the right point in space, could you look out the window and see, for example, the Horsehead Nebula as it appears in that famous photo?

Question

Or would different light wavelengths etc render it invisible/completely different from how we recognize it from our space photography (for want of a better term)?

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Answer 1

The colors are redshifted from our current distance yes. But what if we were closer like the question is more or less saying? You can see the arm of the milky way with the naked eye in the right conditions/locations. Why not the nebula or any other object if the distance were shorter?