Astronomy Picture of the Day -- IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula

NASA ^ | October 29, 2015 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

Explanation: This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871. About 25 light-years across, the telescopic field of view spans only a small part of the much larger Heart and Soul nebulae. At an estimated distance of 6,500 light-years the star-forming complex lies within the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way, seen in planet Earth's skies toward the constellation Cassiopeia. An example of triggered star formation, the dense star-forming clouds of IC 1871 are themselves sculpted by the intense winds and radiation of the region's massive young stars. This color image adopts a palette made popular in Hubble images of star-forming regions.

[SunkenCiv]

[Credit and Copyright: Sara Wager]

[Army Air Corps]

Don Cornelius would approve.

[SunkenCiv]

The Big One

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks null and void, extra to APoD.

46-billion-pixel Photo is Largest Astronomical Image of All Time

[SunkenCiv]

...and Jim Morrison...

[MUDDOG]

star-forming clouds of IC 1871

Somewhere in the distance
There's seven new stars are born.

[Conan the Librarian]

Eta Carina nebula. In a 100,000 years or less, it will be gone as the star in the center is going to go super, or, hypernova.

[dr_lew]

Here's a blink comparison with a view from Starry Night Pro7. I noticed that the image was oriented with the celestial coordinates, so I moved my POV to the north pole to get natural alignment. It still wasn't perfect so I did rotate my Starry Night screen shot slightly to get the best match I could. One thing though, the APOD image is REVERSED ! Well, no crime, but interesting. SN Pro7 allows me to "flip" horizontally or vertically, and a vertcial flip gave me good alignment. I used the free online animated GIF maker to get the blink comparison.

The grid lines are 1 minute of RA apart horizontally, and 15 minutes of latitude apart vertically. Note how small the green circle is, which marks IC 1871.

[Larry Lucido]

Makes James Brown feel good too.

[Larry Lucido]

Interesting!

[Army Air Corps]

The Soooooooooooul Nebula.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! APoD has had a flipped image at least once before, not sure they knew.

[dr_lew]

Yes because if they knew, why would they do it?

Life is full of these questions :-)