The Gabriela Mistral Nebula (Kat M)

The Gabriela Mistral Nebula

The Gabriela Mistral Nebula is a beautiful and fascinating region of space where new stars are being born.
It is named after a famous Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. The nebula is part of a larger complex of gas and dust called the Carina Nebula, which is located in the southern constellation of Carina, the Keel.
The nebula has a distinctive shape that resembles the profile of a woman’s face, with bright stars forming her eyes and mouth.
The nebula is also known by the catalogue numbers NGC 3324 and IC 2599, and it was first observed by James Dunlop in 1826. The nebula is about 7,500 light-years away from Earth, and it spans about 15 light-years across.
It is composed of different types of gas, such as hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, that glow in different colours when they are ionized by the intense radiation from the young stars in the centre. The stars belong to an open cluster called OCL 819, which has an estimated age of 12 million years.
The cluster contains about 580 stars, some of which are very massive and bright. The stellar winds from these stars have carved out a cavity in the surrounding gas, creating the outline of the nebula.

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Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

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Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

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