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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2022 February 14   
      
                         In the Heart of the Heart Nebula   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Jensen   
      
      Explanation: What excites the Heart Nebula? First, the large emission   
      nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a human heart. Its shape   
      perhaps fitting of the Valentine's Day, this heart glows brightly in   
      red light emitted by its most prominent element: excited hydrogen. The   
      red glow and the larger shape are all created by a small group of stars   
      near the nebula's center. In the heart of the Heart Nebula are young   
      stars from the open star cluster Melotte 15 that are eroding away   
      several picturesque dust pillars with their energetic light and winds.   
      The open cluster of stars contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times   
      the mass of our Sun, many dim stars only a fraction of the mass of our   
      Sun, and an absent microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago.   
      The Heart Nebula is located about 7,500 light years away toward the   
      constellation of the mythological Queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia).   
      
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