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                               2020 January 28
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                    Star Formation in the Tadpole Nebula
      Image Credit: [3]WISE, [4]IRSA, [5]NASA; Processing & Copyright:
                           [6]Francesco Antonucci

   Explanation: What's all of the commotion in the Tadpole Nebula? [7]Star
   formation. Dusty emission in the [8]Tadpole Nebula, IC 410, lies about
   12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation of the
   [9]Charioteer ([10]Auriga). The cloud of glowing gas is over 100
   light-years across, [11]sculpted by [12]stellar winds and radiation
   from embedded [13]open star cluster [14]NGC 1893. Formed in the
   interstellar cloud [15]a mere 4 million years ago, bright newly formed
   cluster stars are seen all around the star-forming nebula. [16]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 [17]IC 410, these [18]cosmic tadpole shapes
   are about 10 light-years long. The [19]featured image was taken in
   [20]infrared light by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer
   ([21]WISE) satellite.

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   7. https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/how-do-stars-form-and-evolve
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadpole
   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot
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  15. https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909065v1
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