WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 71- SOUL OF THE NIGHT
The Heart Nebula (IC 1805,
top) pairs with the Baby
Nebula (IC 1848), also known
as the Soul Nebula, in this
image. Exposures were
captured through the same
filters the Hubble Space
Telescope uses. Both objects
are large star-forming
regions in Cassiopeia some
6,500 light-years away. Note
that you also can see two
galaxies, Maffei 1 and
Maffei 2, the red objects at
the right edge. Maffei 1 is
larger and lies above Maffei 2
in this image. They lie about
10 million light-years away
and belong to the IC 342/
Maffei Group, the closest
galactic group to the Local
Group. • Alistair Symon
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