Posted on 10/24/2011 9:19:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: What powers the Heart Nebula? The large emission nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a human heart. The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element: hydrogen. The red glow and the larger shape are all created by a small group of stars near the nebula's center. A close up in high dynamic range (HDR) spanning about 30 light years contains many of these stars is shown above. This open cluster of stars contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, many dim stars only a fraction of the mass of our Sun, and an absent microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago. The Heart Nebula is located about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia.
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[Credit & Copyright: Daniel Verloop (Beursacademie)]
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That’s a beautiful picture!
That is a real Beauty!
Evidently, the Universe is not “Heartless”.
Microquasar...Let’s see, I know have one around here someplace... is it in my tool box? my tacklebox? hidden on that old hard drive? I’ll keep looking and let you know when/if I find it.
..."Villans!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!-here, here!-it is the beating of his hideous heart!" Poe
“As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar, a wonderous thing happened, why not? They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe, destroying many, many planets - including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them - Earth. So all over the world, couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could’ve been happier, unless it would’ve also been Valentine’s Day. What? It was? Hooray!”
If it is a heart, it appears to be a broken one ):
Indeed.
Call me quasar, but I’m not sure it’s important. ;’)
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