The Fishhead Nebula

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Behold: the glowing gases and dust clouds of IC1795, a star forming region 6000 light years from Earth in the constellation of Cassiopeia. To wit:

 The nebula’s colours were created by adopting the Hubble color palette for mapping narrow emission from oxygen, hydrogen, and sulphur atoms to blue, green and red colours, 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, this picture would span about 70 light-years across IC 1795.

(ImageAlan Pham)

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