Keyword: Heart Nebula
Galaxies Beyond the Heart: Maffei 1 and 2
9.03.2010
Central IC 1805
26.07.2008
9.03.2010
The two galaxies on the far left were unknown until 1968. Although they would have appeared as two of the brighter galaxies on the night sky, the opaque dust of the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy had obscured them from being seen in visible light.
Central IC 1805
26.07.2008
Cosmic clouds seem to form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805. Of course, the clouds are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster (aka Melotte 15).
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