IC 1848 - The Soul Nebula
Distance From Earth - 6,500-7,500 Light Years
Diameter - 100-150 Light Years
Total Exposure Time: 23.3 Hours
My last image of 2025 and possibly my favorite of the year. I was able to pull out tons of really interesting detail in the darker structures.
The Soul Nebula is a massive star-forming H II region located in the constellation Cassiopeia. It contains young, massive stars whose intense ultraviolet radiation ionizes the surrounding hydrogen gas, producing strong H-alpha emission that causes the nebula to glow red. In addition to hydrogen emission, the nebula contains emission from ionized sulfur ([S II]) and doubly ionized oxygen ([O III]). Typical electron temperatures in the ionized regions are estimated to be in 8,000–10,000 K range.
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IC 1805 - The Heart Nebula
Captured over 40 hours, revealing faint, turbulent structures deep within the Heart Nebula.
Distance From Earth - 7,500 Light Years
Diameter - 200 Light Years
Total Exposure Time - 40 Hours, 22 Mins
The Heart is a star-forming region: a cloud of gas, mostly hydrogen, where new stars are still being born. At its center is Melotte 15, a cluster only about 1.5 million years old. Some of its stars are about 50 times the mass of our Sun. Their radiation strips electrons from the surrounding gas, and the gas glows giving off the light I've captured. Their winds have hollowed out the cavity at the center. The colors here are a map, not what your eye would see. Warm gold shows hydrogen and cool blue shows oxygen, the way scientists separate different elements in Hubble images. The bright knot at the edge is the Fishhead Nebula, a denser pocket of the same cloud.
I started working on this image August 18 with the intention of hanging it in the nursery when my daughter is born. It took more than 40 hours of exposure across nine nights, in two panels stitched together.
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