Posted on 10/13/2011 3:19:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: This sharp cosmic portrait features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. Also cataloged as NGC 896, the nebula's remarkable details, shown in its dominant red color, were captured using a sensitive camera, and long exposures that include image data from a narrowband filter. The narrow filter transmits only H-alpha light, the red light of hydrogen atoms. Ionized by ultraviolet light from energetic young stars, a hydrogen atom emits the characteristic H-alpha light as its single electron is recaptured and transitions to lower energy states. Not far on the sky from the famous Double Star Cluster in Perseus, IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805, the Heart Nebula, as part of a complex of star forming regions that lie at the edge of a large molecular cloud. Located just over 6,000 light-years away, the larger star forming complex sprawls along the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. At that distance, this picture would span about 70 light-years across IC 1795.
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[Credit & Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera (Fera Photography)]
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WOW!
So it does. A giant interstellar scarab (carrion beetle) devouring the remnants of dead stars and planets.
Very ancient Egyptian!
The greatest scientific minds have mapped and monikered the stars, and their birthplaces; many, as in this case, by number. But the God of the Universe calls them all by name!
Isaiah 40:26
Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
Psalm 147:1,4,5
Praise the LORD.
How good it is to sing praises to our God,
how pleasant and fitting to praise him!
He determines the number of the stars
and calls them each by name.
Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit.
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