﻿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2024 May 1 [2]A colorful star forming region is shown that resembles a fish swimming to the right. Dark dust is apparent across the lower right, and a sparse starfield is visible all over the image. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Roberto Colombari & [4]Mauro Narduzzi Explanation: To some, this nebula looks like the head of a [5]fish. However, [6]this colorful cosmic portrait really features [7]glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern [8]constellation Cassiopeia. The nebula's colors were created by adopting the [9]Hubble color palette for mapping narrowband emissions from oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur atoms to blue, green and red colors, and further blending the data with images of the region recorded through broadband filters. Not far on the sky from the famous [10]Double Star Cluster in Perseus, IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805, the [11]Heart Nebula, as part of a [12]complex of star forming regions that lie at the edge of a large molecular cloud. Located just over 6,000 [13]light-years away, the larger star forming complex sprawls along the Perseus spiral arm of our [14]Milky Way Galaxy. At that distance, IC 1795 would [15]span about 70 light-years across. Open Science: [16]Browse 3,300+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library Tomorrow's picture: open space __________________________________________________________________ [17]< | [18]Archive | [19]Submissions | [20]Index | [21]Search | [22]Calendar | [23]RSS | [24]Education | [25]About APOD | [26]Discuss | [27]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [28]Robert Nemiroff ([29]MTU) & [30]Jerry Bonnell ([31]UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn [32]Specific rights apply. [33]NASA Web Privacy, [34]Accessibility, [35]Notices; A service of: [36]ASD at [37]NASA / [38]GSFC, [39]NASA Science Activation & [40]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2405/FishheadB_Colombari_2704.jpg 3. https://www.flickr.com/people/110872523@N07/ 4. https://www.astrobin.com/users/ToolMayNARD/ 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish#/media/File:Dunkleosteus_profile.jpg 6. https://www.fast-aio.net/fishheadhso 7. http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/what1.html 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopeia_(constellation) 9. http://bf-astro.com/hubblep.htm 10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091204.html 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090214.html 12. http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/nebulae/ic1805.html 13. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/light-year/en/ 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080606.html 15. https://media.istockphoto.com/id/175194979/photo/big-stretch.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=1DMdAkJMllfbCuwlN0OdD1vWbsz-kdD-PloadnaPDwY= 16. https://ascl.net/code/all 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240430.html 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 21. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 23. https://apod.com/feed.rss 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 26. https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=240501 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240502.html 28. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 29. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 30. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 31. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 32. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 33. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 34. https://www.nasa.gov/general/accessibility/ 35. https://www.nasa.gov/privacy/ 36. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 37. https://www.nasa.gov/ 38. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 39. https://science.nasa.gov/learners 40. http://www.mtu.edu/