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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Near to the Heart Nebula
NASA ^ | 17 Dec, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Horne & Drew Evans

Posted on 12/17/2024 12:14:07 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: What excites the Heart Nebula? First, the large emission nebula on the upper left, catalogued as IC 1805, looks somewhat like a human heart. The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element, hydrogen, but this long-exposure image was also blended with light emitted by sulfur (yellow) and oxygen (blue). In the center of the Heart Nebula are young stars from the open star cluster Melotte 15 that are eroding away several picturesque dust pillars with their atom-exciting energetic light and winds. The Heart Nebula is located about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia. This wide field image shows much more, though, including the Fishhead Nebula just below the Heart, a supernova remnant on the lower left, and three planetary nebulas on the image right. Taken over 57 nights, this image is so deep, though, that it clearly shows fainter long and complex filaments.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 12/17/2024 12:14:07 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 12/17/2024 12:14:40 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 12/17/2024 12:15:08 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; A_perfect_lady; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; ...
Pinging the APOD list

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔

4 posted on 12/17/2024 12:16:01 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I can see these guys sitting around and saying, “Well, that looks sort of like a heart; and that one could possibly be a fish head; and that’ll do.”


5 posted on 12/17/2024 12:18:35 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: MtnClimber

Wow.


6 posted on 12/17/2024 12:23:25 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Jamestown1630

And this one looks like the Los Angeles freeway interchange.


7 posted on 12/17/2024 2:03:46 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: A Navy Vet

LOL!

I guess it’s better than some forgettable alpha-numeric designation...


8 posted on 12/17/2024 2:13:55 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: MtnClimber

NGC 896: “Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up YUM!” :-)


9 posted on 12/17/2024 2:41:05 PM PST by AFB-XYZ ( )
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You left out the ‘roly poly’ part...


10 posted on 12/17/2024 3:33:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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You left out the ‘roly poly’ part...

Aiyeeee! You're absolutely right. Heh. :-)

11 posted on 12/17/2024 4:46:36 PM PST by AFB-XYZ ( )
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