Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  IC 1805  ·  NGC 1027  ·  NGC 896
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A Heart in Space!, AstroDarks
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The Heart Nebula, IC805, imaged in Hubble Palette. This is an emission nebula and star forming region of almost 200 light-years across, located within the Perseus Arm of our Milky Way galaxy, about 7500 light-years away in constellation Cassiopeia. In the center is Melotte 15, an open cluster of stars, which contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun's mass. Also visible are massive cosmic clouds sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from the massive hot stars of the Melotte 15 One interesting find was a planetary nebula, WeBo1, just north of the heart! The nebula is a thin ring of glowing gas that surrounds a binary star system.

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A Heart in Space!, AstroDarks