Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  NGC 896
IC 1795 - Fish Head Nebula, David Quiles
IC 1795 - Fish Head Nebula
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IC 1795 - Fish Head Nebula

IC 1795 - Fish Head Nebula, David Quiles
IC 1795 - Fish Head Nebula
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IC 1795 - Fish Head Nebula

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IC 1795 is a bright emission nebula of about 70 light-years across with glowing gas and dark lanes of obscuring dust, located just over 6,000 light-years away from Earth in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. The brighter region of the nebula is designated NGC 896.It is part of a complex of star forming regions that lies at the edge of a large molecular cloud called W3, along the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way, where star formation is most actively still going on. IC 1795 is located right at the tip of the heart in the famous Heart Nebula (IC 1805).The stars inside IC 1795, energizing the nebula and making it glow, have not yet emerged from their natal cocoon. In other words, we can’t see the massive stars lighting up this nebula. This suggests that the stars inside are very young, on the order of millions of years.

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