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Image of the Day… Heart Nebula For Valentine’s Day… !!!

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Heart Nebula

It’s 7,500 light years away, in the Perseus Arm of our Milky Way galaxy, in the direction to the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen.

IC1805 aka the Heart Nebula via Justin Ng. See it larger at his website.

Our friend Justin Ng sent in this photo of IC 1805 – otherwise known as the Heart Nebula – on this Valentine’s Day 2015. It’s an emission nebula with glowing gas and darker dust lanes, located some 7,500 light years away, in the Perseus Arm of our Milky Way galaxy, in the direction to the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen.

Thank you, Justin Ng!

To all who celebrate it, happy Valentine’s Day 2015!

SOURCE:::: http://www.earthskynews.org

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Image of the Day…World”s Largest Single-Aperture Telescope…

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Milky Way over Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico

Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot (305-meter) radio telescope is the world’s largest single-aperture telescope.

Milky Way over Arecibo, by Ferdinand Arroyo.

Be sure to click into the larger view of this photo. It’s the extensive cloud of stars at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, over Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. We see this Milky Way star cloud because, in this direction, we’re looking toward the galaxy’s center. Ferdinand Arroyo, from Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe (Astronomical Society of the Caribbean) took this beautiful photo using a Nikon D90 with a Sigma 10mm lens. 30 secs exposure at ISO 1600, F/4.

Thank you, Ferdinand and Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe!

By the way, in case you are wondering, here’s what the observatory looks like in daylight.

Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, via Wikimedia Commons.