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IC 410, John Bozeman

IC 410

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IC 410, John Bozeman

IC 410

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Description

IC 410 is located 12,000 light years from Earth in the Auriga constellation, and is nicknamed the Tadpole Nebula because of the tadpole-shaped clouds of dark dust that appear to be swimming towards the center. The Tadpole Nebula is a region of ionised hydrogen gas spanning over 100 light years across that's carved and sculpted by streams of charged particles called stellar winds emanating from open star cluster NGC 1893. NGC 1893 is about 4 million years old: the blink of an eye in cosmic terms.

Color Mapped:

Red - 22 micron IR
Green - 12 micron IR
Blue - 3.4 micron IR
Cyan - 4.6 micron IR

 Processed with FITS Liberator, PixInsight and Photoshop 2023.

This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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IC 410, John Bozeman