Hello! Astronomy Picture of the Day - January 28th, 2020
Today's video is about Star Formation in the Tadpole Nebula
What's all of the commotion in the Tadpole Nebula?
Star formation
Dusty emission in the Tadpole Nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga)
The cloud of glowing gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893
Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, bright newly formed cluster stars are seen all around the star-forming nebula
Notable near the image center are two relatively dense streamers of material trailing away from the nebula's central regions
Potentially sites of ongoing star formation in IC 410, these cosmic tadpole shapes are about 10 light-years long
The featured image was taken in infrared light by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite
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