Hope you enjoy this collection of images of the Heart Nebula!
_________________________________
IC 1805: Heart Nebula in Bicolor, Narrowband
http://digiborg.files.wordpress.com/201 ... icolor.jpg
Copyright: Adam Tedesco --
IC 1805: Heart Nebula
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5010/527 ... 7aa6_b.jpg
Copyright: Rafael Rodriguez Morales --
IC 1396: Melotte 15 in the Heart of the Heart in Hubble Palette
http://www.starrysite.com/index.php?sit ... ryitem,172
Copyright: Michał Żolnowski --
Melotte 15: The Heart of the Heart
http://www.pbase.com/djrlx90/image/1307 ... iginal.jpg
Copyright: David Rosenthal --
The Heart Nebula (IC1805, MEL15, IC1795, NGC896) - HST
http://astrofotky.cz/gallery.php?show=. ... 280727.jpg
Copyright: Pavel Pech
--
Melotte 15 (The Heart of the Heart [IC 1805]) in HaRGB
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 1194_QXdYT
Copyright: Craig & Tammy Temple --
IC1805: Bicolor narrow-band image of the Heart Nebula
Copyright: Brian Kimball --
IC 1805, Nebula Heart
Copyright: Cesar Blanco --
IC 1805, The Heart Nebula
http://www.astromodelismo.es/index.htm
Copyright: Máximo Ruiz
Full Size: http://www.astromodelismo.es/Web%20Astr ... 201805.jpg
--
Heart & Soul
http://darkskyimages.com/image.php?phot ... ry=Nebulas
Copyright: Scott Tucker 2-frame mosaic of the Heart & Soul nebulae. Total of 6.5 hours of exposure time.
--
IC 1805: The Heart Nebula
http://www.mitchtrilling.com/mtrilling.com/Welcome.html
Copyright: Mitch Trilling http://www.mtrilling.com/mtrilling.com/ ... Large.html
--
Bloody Heart Nebula - IC 1805
http://blog.jesion.pl
Copyright: Adam Jesionkiewicz There is a bigger version of my latest picture (4 mpix):
http://www.jesion.pl/blog/wp-content/up ... _4mpix.jpg
http://www.jesion.pl/blog/2010/10/04/wi ... e-ic-1805/
--
IC1805: Heart Nebula
http://www.kingsparkweather.com/IC1805ANDB
Copyright: Image, Andy D'Arienzo; processing: Bob McCourt --
IC 1805: Heart Nebula in Casseopeia
http://www.pbase.com/dsantiago/image/128046684
Copyright: Derek Santiago & dedicated to his father, Roman Santiago --
--bystander wrote:Heart and Soul Nebulae - 24 May 2010Heart and Soul Nebulae
The Heart and Soul nebulae are seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The image covers an area of the sky over ten times as wide as the full moon, and eight times as high (5.5 x 3.9 degrees), in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. The nebula to the right is the Heart, designated IC 1805 and named after its resemblance to a human heart. To the left is the Soul nebula, also known as the Embryo nebula, IC 1848, or W5. The Perseus arm lies further from the center of the Milky Way than the arm that contains our Sun. The Heart and Soul nebulae stretch out nearly 580 light-years across, covering a small portion of the diameter of the Milky Way, which is roughly 100,000 light-years across.
The two nebulae are both massive star-making factories, marked by giant bubbles that were blown into surrounding dust by radiation and winds from the stars. WISE's infrared vision allows it to see into the cooler and dustier crevices of clouds like these, where gas and dust are just beginning to collect into new stars. These stars are less than a few million of years old -- youngsters in comparison to stars like the sun, which is nearly 5 billion years old.
Also visible near the bottom of this image are two galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. Both galaxies contain billions of stars and, at about 10 million light-years away, are well outside our Milky Way yet relatively close compared to most galaxies. Maffei 1 is the bluish elliptical object and Maffei 2 is the spiral galaxy.
All four infrared detectors aboard WISE were used to make this image. Color is representational: blue and cyan represent infrared light at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 microns, which is dominated by light from stars. Green and red represent light at 12 and 22 microns, which is mostly light from warm dust.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
RJN wrote:Maffei 1 and 2 - 05 Mar 2010Maffei 1 and 2
A mosaic of images from WISE in the constellation of Cassiopeia. This region contains a large star forming nebula within the Milky Way Galaxy, called IC 1805 (sometimes called the Heart Nebula), a portion of which is seen at the right of the image. IC 1805 is over 6 thousand light-years from Earth. Also visible in this image are two nearby galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. In visible light these galaxies are hidden by dust in IC 1805 and were unknown until 1968 when Paolo Maffei found them using infrared observations. Both galaxies contain billions of stars and are located some 10 million light-years away (well outside our own Milky Way Galaxy). Maffei 1 is the bluish elliptical object in the center of the image. It is a Lenticular type galaxy, which has a disk-like structure and a central bulge but no spiral structure or appreciable dust content. Maffei 2 (to the upper left of Maffei 1) is a Spiral type galaxy that also has a disk shape, but with a bar-like central bulge and two prominent dusty spiral arms.
The image size is about 1.6 by 4.5 degrees (The full Moon is about 0.5 degrees across by comparison). Since this is an image of invisible infrared light, blue is mapped to the WISE 3.4 & 4.6 micron channels and is dominated by star light. Green represents the WISE 12 micron channel, and red is the 22 micron channel, which are dominated by infrared emission from warm interstellar dust.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
