Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  27 Cas)  ·  IC 59  ·  IC 63  ·  The star Navi (γ Cas
IC59 IC63 - GHOSTS IN CASSIOPEIA, Emanuele La Barbera
IC59 IC63 - GHOSTS IN CASSIOPEIA
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IC59 IC63 - GHOSTS IN CASSIOPEIA

IC59 IC63 - GHOSTS IN CASSIOPEIA, Emanuele La Barbera
IC59 IC63 - GHOSTS IN CASSIOPEIA
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IC59 IC63 - GHOSTS IN CASSIOPEIA

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IC59 and IC63 are two nebulae, part of a larger complex, which extend near the star Gamma Cassiopeiae (or Navi), in the constellation of Cassiopeia.
With a weak average magnitude of 13 and 550 light years away from the Earth, it's a complex of dust characterized by an emission and reflection component whose morphology, which recalls the shape of a ghost, derives from the interaction with the stellar wind of the Navi star.

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