{"id":11407,"date":"2010-03-10T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-mosaic-of-cassiopeia\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T09:27:00","slug":"a-mosaic-of-cassiopeia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/a-mosaic-of-cassiopeia.php","title":{"rendered":"A Mosaic of Cassiopeia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This mosaic of images from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explore<\/span>, or WISE<\/span>, in the constellation of Cassiopeia contains a large star-forming nebula within the Milky Way Galaxy<\/span><\/a>, called IC 1805<\/span> or the Heart Nebula, a portion of which is seen at the right of the image. IC 1805 is more than 6,000 light-years from Earth. Also visible in this image are two nearby galaxies<\/span>, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. In visible light these galaxies are hidden by dust in IC 1805<\/span> and were unknown until 1968 when Paolo Maffei found them using infrared observations. Both galaxies contain billions of stars and are located some 10 million light-years away. Maffei 1 is a lenticular galaxy, which has a disk-like structure and a central bulge but no spiral structure or appreciable dust content. Maffei 2 is a spiral galaxy that also has a disk shape, but with a bar-like central bulge and two prominent dusty spiral arms.

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