--- title: Valentine's Day: Spot 9 Cosmic Valentines From Space description: From a small heart-shaped island in Croatia to a mesa on the surface of Mars canonical: https://time.com/4218328/hearts-from-space/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-12T14:44:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:25.544Z article:section: Science og:title: Spot 9 Cosmic Valentines From Space og:description: From a small heart-shaped island in Croatia to a mesa on the surface of Mars og:url: https://time.com/4218328/hearts-from-space/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf21e2bd4f1e9bfc0/69887d52196cf4d61903a4c6/time-valentines-day-hearts-in-space-pluto.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: New Horizons Nears July 14 Flyby Of Pluto og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Spot 9 Cosmic Valentines From Space twitter:description: From a small heart-shaped island in Croatia to a mesa on the surface of Mars twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf21e2bd4f1e9bfc0/69887d52196cf4d61903a4c6/time-valentines-day-hearts-in-space-pluto.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Spot 9 Cosmic Valentines From Space > Sponsored content. 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NASA//APL/SwRI/Getty Images by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Feb 12, 2016 2:44 PM UTC  An image of Pluto taken from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. NASA//APL/SwRI/Getty Images  The small heart-shaped island of Galešnjak, Croatia, acquired by ALOS – Japan's four-tonne Earth observation satellite and released on Feb. 11, 2011. JAXA/ESA  A sharp cosmic portrait features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The nebula's remarkable details, shown in its dominant red color, were captured using a sensitive camera, and long exposures that include image data from a narrowband filter taken from Eagle Ridge Observatory in Calif. on Sept. 26-27, 2011. Bob and Janice Fera  Scientists discovered a valentine from Mars when a camera on the Mars Global Surveyor shot a heart-shaped pit, formed when a straight-walled trough collapsed. The photo was taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor and released in June 1999. NASA/Getty Images  The Heart and Soul nebulae are seen in this infrared mosaic released May 24, 2010, from NASA's WISE. Located in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. The nebula to the right is the Heart, and to the left is the Soul nebula. Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images  Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope released in Aug. 2008\. This image contains some of the best evidence yet for the triggered star-formation theory. 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Julien Girard drew the heart in the air by shining a tiny flashlight keychain at the camera during a 25-second exposure with a tripod. The central region of the Milky Way appears in the middle of the heart, as the plane of our galaxy stretches across the image. Julien H. V. 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