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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                    2024 May 1   
      A colorful star forming region is shown that resembles a fish swimming   
         to the right. Dark dust is apparent across the lower right, and a   
          sparse starfield is visible all over the image. Please see the   
                    explanation for more detailed information.   
      
                           IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula   
           Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Colombari & Mauro Narduzzi   
      
      Explanation: To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish.   
      However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas and   
      obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern   
      constellation Cassiopeia. The nebula's colors were created by adopting   
      the Hubble color palette for mapping narrowband emissions from oxygen,   
      hydrogen, and sulfur atoms to blue, green and red colors, and further   
      blending the data with images of the region recorded through broadband   
      filters. Not far on the sky from the famous Double Star Cluster in   
      Perseus, IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805, the Heart Nebula,   
      as part of a complex of star forming regions that lie at the edge of a   
      large molecular cloud. Located just over 6,000 light-years away, the   
      larger star forming complex sprawls along the Perseus spiral arm of our   
      Milky Way Galaxy. At that distance, IC 1795 would span about 70   
      light-years across.   
      
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