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Near to the Heart Nebula

By |2024-12-17T08:09:16-05:00December 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day 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 [...]

Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula

By |2024-09-17T09:09:08-04:00September 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Cosmic clouds form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805. The clouds are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster, Melotte 15. About 1.5 million years young, the cluster stars are scattered in this colorful skyscape, along [...]

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