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Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford
(Rancho Del Sol Observatory)
Explanation:
This close-up view
shows a portion of otherwise faint emission nebula
IC 410 in striking false-colors.
It also shows two remarkable denizens of the glowing gas
cloud at the right - the
"tadpoles"
of IC 410.
The picture is a
composite
of images taken through
narrow band filters intended to
trace atoms in the nebula.
Emission from sulfur atoms is shown in red, hydrogen atoms
in green, and oxygen in blue.
Partly obscured by foreground dust,
the nebula
itself surrounds
NGC 1893, a young
galactic cluster of stars that energizes the glowing gas.
Composed of denser, cooler gas and dust, the tadpoles
are around 10 light-years long.
Sculpted by
wind and radiation from the cluster stars,
their tails trail away from the cluster's central region.
IC 410 lies some 12,000 light-years away, toward the
constellation
Auriga.
At that distance, this image spans about 70 light-years.
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Publications with keywords: emission nebula - star formation
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See also:
- APOD: 2025 December 28 Á NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- NGC 253: Dusty Island Universe
- APOD: 2025 October 21 Á IC 1805: The Heart Nebula
- Young Suns of NGC 7129
- APOD: 2025 December 17 Á W5: The Soul Nebula
- APOD: 2025 December 9 Á The Heart of the Soul Nebula
- APOD: 2025 September 19 Á The NGC 6914 Complex