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Astronomy Picture of the Day - IC 2574: Coddington's Nebula
NASA ^ | 6 Feb, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Lorand Fenyes

Posted on 02/06/2025 12:23:21 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. In fact dwarf galaxy IC 2574 shows clear evidence of intense star forming activity in its telltale reddish regions of glowing hydrogen gas. Just as in spiral galaxies, the turbulent star-forming regions in IC 2574 are churned by stellar winds and supernova explosions spewing material into the galaxy's interstellar medium and triggering further star formation. A mere 12 million light-years distant, IC 2574 is part of the M81 group of galaxies, seen toward the northern constellation Ursa Major. Also known as Coddington's Nebula, the lovely island universe is about 50,000 light-years across, discovered by American astronomer Edwin Coddington in 1898.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 02/06/2025 12:23:21 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 02/06/2025 12:23:40 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 02/06/2025 12:24:39 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Gorgeous.

For some reason, it also reminds me of tea and crumpets. Maybe it come from being half-Brit by blood. Heh. :-)


4 posted on 02/06/2025 12:28:55 PM PST by AFB-XYZ ( )
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Does look a LOT better than the shot I took of it a few weeks ago.

I have a Dwarf 3 astro-camera and I think I can get better if I can put more time into it.


5 posted on 02/06/2025 6:06:17 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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