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Melotte 15, John Bozeman

Melotte 15

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Melotte 15, John Bozeman

Melotte 15

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Description

Melotte 15 is part of Heart Nebula. There are several bright stars here, some of them nearly 50 times mass of the Sun. It lies 7500 light years away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It displays glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.

Color Mapped:

Red - 4.6 micron IR
Green - 12 micron IR
Blue - 22 micron IR

Processed with FITS Liberator, PixInsight and Photoshop 2023.

This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Melotte 15, John Bozeman