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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- IC 1805: The Heart Nebula in HDR
NASA ^ | October 25, 2011 | (see photo credit)

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.

October 25, 2011

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; heartnebula; ic1805; science
[Credit & Copyright: Daniel Verloop (Beursacademie)]

1 posted on 10/24/2011 9:19:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 10/24/2011 9:20:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
"Absent microquasar"??? Did someone lose it?
Too lazy to go do a search, but it does not seem like the thing you might just lose...........how many have a microquasar, unless it is some small POS TV set from decades ago?
3 posted on 10/24/2011 9:31:27 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: SunkenCiv

IC 1805: Light from the Heart Credit & Copyright: Richard Crisp

4 posted on 10/25/2011 1:42:52 AM PDT by BlueDragon (who is that standing in the middle there???)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s a beautiful picture!


5 posted on 10/25/2011 2:07:33 AM PDT by NMCicero
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To: SunkenCiv

That is a real Beauty!

Evidently, the Universe is not “Heartless”.


6 posted on 10/25/2011 5:35:35 AM PDT by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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To: doorgunner69

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.


7 posted on 10/25/2011 5:49:04 AM PDT by ixtl ( You live and learn. Or you don't live long.)
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To: doorgunner69; All
...Did someone lose 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

8 posted on 10/25/2011 8:02:43 AM PDT by gargoyle (...it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them...)
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To: Conservative4Life

“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!”


9 posted on 10/25/2011 12:05:17 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: left that other site; SunkenCiv

If it is a heart, it appears to be a broken one ):


10 posted on 10/25/2011 2:45:01 PM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: .30Carbine

Indeed.


11 posted on 10/25/2011 5:08:31 PM PDT by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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To: doorgunner69

Call me quasar, but I’m not sure it’s important. ;’)


12 posted on 10/25/2011 6:29:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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