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Tadpole nebulae IC 410, Sean Jackson

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Matt Bothwell, the Cambridge public astronomer has kindly written an explanation:
I suspect the ’tadpoles’ are more like Bok globules, rather than supernova remnants. They seem to be dense little clouds of dust and gas — a few tens times the mass of the Sun — that exist inside larger star-forming nebulae. They are in the process of forming new stars. The ‘tails' of the tadpoles, I would guess, are the result of UV radiation pressure from nearby newborn stars stripping material from the globule to form tails. These are sometimes called 'cometary globules’.

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