pafret Loc: Northeast

"A Look to the Heavens"

“What powers the Heart Nebula? The large emission nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a heart. The nebula's glow - as well as the shape of the gas and dust clouds - is powered by by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster Melotte 15.

This deep telescopic image maps the pervasive light of narrow emission lines from atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur in the nebula. The field of view spans just over two degrees on the sky, so that it appears larger than four times the diameter of a full moon. The cosmic heart is found in the constellation of Cassiopeia, the boastful mythical Queen of Aethiopia.”
- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170827.html

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Thanks for posting. Images as far back as 1995. Beautiful stuff. I was outside of Knoxville for the eclipse and it was great, but some of these eclipse images are really something else. I'll be looking at that site often.

pafret Loc: Northeast

Tomorrow's picture is supposed to be of a double eclipse. That should be an interesting post as well if I have time. I will be out most of the day.

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It was and looked really cool, but only lasted a second so most missed it.

Quakerwidow Loc: Chestertown, MD

Lovely, as always. Thank you for posting.

goofball Loc: timbucktoo

Just think, out of all that, there's US ! What a miracle!