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Astronomy Picture of the Day - IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula
NASA ^ | 1 May, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Colombari & Mauro Narduzzi

Posted on 05/01/2024 12:19:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The nebula's colors were created by adopting the Hubble color palette for mapping narrowband emissions from oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur atoms to blue, green and red colors, and further blending the data with images of the region recorded through broadband filters. 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, IC 1795 would span about 70 light-years across.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 05/01/2024 12:19:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 05/01/2024 12:19:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 05/01/2024 12:20:27 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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4 posted on 05/01/2024 12:24:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

Fish heads
Fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads
Eat them up, yum

Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino
In Italian restaurants with Oriental women
Yeah


5 posted on 05/01/2024 12:25:45 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

You beat me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDtUzRIG6I


6 posted on 05/01/2024 12:27:27 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: MtnClimber
Space Cat is on it!


7 posted on 05/01/2024 12:27:40 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: MtnClimber
Looks like this feller.

Barrel-Eye-Fish

8 posted on 05/01/2024 12:27:41 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

I had a fish head
Took it to a movie
Didn’t have to pay
To get it in

Fish heads....


9 posted on 05/01/2024 12:28:31 PM PDT by cephalopod
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

YA BEAT ME TO IT, LOL!


10 posted on 05/01/2024 1:05:43 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

There are some crazy looking fish in the sea.

I can remember my Mom telling me, “there are more fish in the ocean…


11 posted on 05/01/2024 1:08:08 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: MtnClimber

That’s the Cheeseburger Nebula.


12 posted on 05/01/2024 3:02:16 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: blueunicorn6
It looks like a double cheeseburger

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13 posted on 05/01/2024 6:00:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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