Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  24 Aur  ·  IC 417  ·  NGC 1931  ·  The star φ Aur
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The Spider and The Fly, Ruben Barbosa
The Spider and The Fly
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* Image aquisition remotly by Cláudio Tenreiro, at Insight Observatory, New Mexico.

* Image processing: Ruben Barbosa.

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From APOD: "Will the spider ever catch the fly? Not if both are large emission nebulas toward the constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga). The spider-shaped gas cloud on the left is actually an emission nebula labelled IC 417, while the smaller fly-shaped cloud on the right is dubbed NGC 1931 and is both an emission nebula and a reflection nebula. About 10,000 light-years distant, both nebulas harbor young, open star clusters. For scale, the more compact NGC 1931 (Fly) is about 10 light-years across."

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The Spider and The Fly, Ruben Barbosa

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1. Nebulae