Jamie Carter is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor based in Cardiff, U.K. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners and lectures on astronomy and the natural world. Jamie regularly writes for Space.com, TechRadar.com, Forbes Science, BBC Wildlife magazine and Scientific American, and many others.
Where it is: 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia, in the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy
Why it's so special: A beautiful new Hubble Space Telescope image published in late September shows a dark, tadpole-shaped object within a sea of red. That sea is a nebula — a huge cloud of dust and gas in space — called the Soul Nebula. Specifically, it's an emission nebula — a bright, diffuse cloud of electrically charged gas that emits its own light, according to NASA. The nebula is red because it's emitting H-alpha light, which is the result of electrons within hydrogen atoms releasing light as they become less energetic.
How to see it in the night sky: The Soul Nebula is part of the star-forming Heart and Soul Nebula , a popular deep-sky sight for telescopes in the Northern Hemisphere winter.
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