Thank you for sharing your photos - this is exactly what this project is all about! :-)
Constellation: Cassiopeia
Type of object: Emitting nebula
Distance: 7,500 light-years
Magnitude: 18.3
Discovered in : November 3, 1787 by William Herschel
Fun Facts !
As wide in our sky as twice the size of the full Moon, this nebula is seemingly as large as M42 or the California Nebula, despite being 5x further away from us.
Most of the new stars in the Heart Nebula form in Melotte 15, the center of the Heart, only 1.5 million years old.
In this cluster, the star HD 15570 is one of the galaxy's most massive and luminous stars (3 million times brighter than the Sun, and 100x more massive).
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