NASA recently shared a stunning photo of a nebula that contains stars more massive than the Sun. According to the agency, many of the stars in this nebula are only about a million years old, which is.

A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth. As ...

In the previous installment of this series, we learned how star maps help astrophotographers in Alameda locate objects millions of light years away. Today you’ll see how these photos get their ...

Skywatcher and photographer Bill Snyder snapped this view of the tadpoles in nebula IC 410, which roughly 12,000 light-years away. The tadpoles are 10 light-years long.

This young group of stars sits within a larger nebula cataloged as IC 410 (sometimes called the Tadpole Nebula or the Tadpoles). And whether you’re a visual observer or an astrophotographer, it ...

A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) showcases the Tadpole nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth.

1719 Jens, an asteroid passing through our solar system, passed in front of the Tadpole Nebula, about 12,000 light-years away, in a new infrared snapshot taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey ...

About 12,000 light years away, the Tadpole Nebula is forming new stars. some as young as a million years old ("infants in stellar terms," says NASA). In this infrared image, created by stitching ...

This tadpole-shaped nebula is known as CG12. It is an example of a “cometary globule,” where a denser region of dust trails off into thread-like strands. While challenging to see in visible ...

Like all EGGs, the dark, tadpole-shaped EGG in this nebula's upper center left is a dense, compact pocket of molecular hydrogen gas found in star-forming regions, according to HubbleSite.

It is called the Tadpole Nebula because the masses of hot young stars are blasting out ultraviolet radiation that has etched the gas into two tadpole-shaped pillars, called Sim 129 and Sim 130.