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THE TADPOLES OF IC 410 Image Credit: Juan Ignacio Jimenez

This telescopic close-up shows off the otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410. It also features two remarkable inhabitants of the cosmic pond of gas and dust below and left of center, 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. Composed of denser cooler gas and dust, the tadpoles are around 10 light-years long and are likely sites of ongoing star formation. Sculpted by winds and radiation from the cluster stars, their heads are outlined by bright ridges of ionized gas while their tails trail away from the cluster's central region. IC 410 lies some 10,000 light-years away, toward the nebula-rich constellation Auriga.

BANGALORE PLANETARIUM IN INDIA, MORE VISITOR RECORDS!

More visitor records! A year ago the refurbished Bangalore Planetarium in India opened with a new powerdome Hybrid Planetarium featuring a ZEISS SKYMASTER ZKP 4 and a 6-channel VELVET fulldome system. The planetarium director, Pramod Galgali, informed ZEISS about a new visitor record in the history of the Bangalore planetarium: “I am happy to inform you that a little over 300,000 people have visited our planetarium. This is the highest number since our inception in 1989. I would like to thank you for all your support.” The mid.size dome measures 15 m in diameter.

Congratulations to the Bangalore Planetarium team!

INTERMEDIO SIN SEMANA DEL PLANETARIO /// VIDEO: ANDRES LENCINA

MANTENIMIENTO PLANETARIO CIUDAD DE ROSARIO - POR: GUSTAVO ARIAS /// FOTOS: ESMERALDA SOSA ( DIA 11 )

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RIBBONS AND PEARLS OF SPIRAL GALAXY NGC 1398 Image Credit: European Southern Observatory

Why do some spiral galaxies have a ring around the center? Spiral galaxy NGC 1398 not only has a ring of pearly stars, gas and dust around its center, but a bar of stars and gas across its center, and spiral arms that appear like ribbons farther out. The featured image was taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile and resolves this grand spiral in impressive detail. NGC 1398 lies about 65 million light years distant, meaning the light we see today left this galaxy when dinosaurs were disappearing from the Earth. The photogenic galaxy is visible with a small telescope toward the constellation of the Furnace (Fornax). The ring near the center is likely an expanding density wave of star formation, caused either by a gravitational encounter with another galaxy, or by the galaxy's own gravitational asymmetries.