Copyright:Nico Carver
中文翻譯:
在宇宙的深處，有一個名叫IC 410的美麗星雲。這幅圖像讓我們更仔細地看到了這個神秘的地方，裡面有許多閃亮的星星和奇妙的粉紅色雲霧。這裡住著一些特別的居民，叫做IC 410的蝌蚪，它們就像宇宙中的小小生物，正等待著星星的誕生！這些蝌蚪的身體由冷冷的氣體和塵埃組成，長達10光年呢！在這片芬芳的雲霧中，四周都是神秘的星星，它們是年輕的恆星，在受到星星力量的影響而發出光亮。IC 410星雲距離我們大約有10,000光年，位於星星非常多的天空區域，叫做Auriga星座。
原文:
This telescopic close-up shows off the central regions of otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410, captured under backyard skies. Presented in a Hubble color palette, the image combines visible broadband and narrowband data with data from the near-infrared. Below and right of center are two remarkable inhabitants of the interstellar pond of gas and dust. the Tadpoles of IC 410. Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, the intensely hot, bright cluster stars energize the glowing gas. But the cosmic tadpoles themselves are composed of denser cooler gas and dust. Around 10 light-years long they are likely sites of ongoing star formation. Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation their heads are outlined by bright ridges of ionized gas while their tails trail away from the cluster’s central young stars. IC 410 lies some 10,000 light-years away, toward the nebula-rich constellation Auriga.
來源:NASA每日圖片
