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IC 410 -- The Tadpoles image

IC 410 -- The Tadpoles


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IC 410 surrounds the open cluster NGC 1893, whose young stars are eroding away the remnants of the cloud. The "tadpoles" are two unusually dense areas whose erosion has formed streamers 10 light years long. 10" Schmidt-Newtonian, SBIG ST-4000XCM, 550 minutes