Heart Nebula

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Here is IC 1805 otherwise known as the Heart Nebula. 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.
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