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The sky around the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405, upper left) // François Bréard
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The sky around the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405, upper left) // François Bréard
The Spider and the Fly
(NASA) The Spider Nebula
The spider part of The Spider and the Fly" nebulae, IC 417 abounds in star formation, as seen in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).
Located in the constellation Auriga, IC 417 lies about 10,000 light-years away. It is in the outer part of the Milky Way, almost exactly in the opposite direction from the galactic center. This region was chosen as the subject of a research project by a group of students, teachers and scientists as part of the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) in 2015.
A cluster of young stars called "Stock 8" can be seen at center right. The light from this cluster carves out a bowl in the nearby dust clouds, seen here as green fluff. Along the sinuous tail in the center and to the left, groupings of red point sources are also young stars.
In this image, infrared wavelengths, which are invisible to the unaided eye, have been assigned visible colors. Light with a wavelength of 1.2 microns, detected by 2MASS, is shown in blue. The Spitzer wavelengths of 3.6 and 4.5 microns are green and red, respectively.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/2MASS
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The Spider Nebula, IC 417 // Viktor Antokhov
The Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405, bottom left), the Tadpole Nebula (IC 410, top), IC 417 (top right), NGC 1931 (far top right), and the Starfish Cluster (M38, right) // Jürgen
The Spider (IC 417, right) and the Fly (NGC 1931, left) // David Quattlebaum
A grand tour of Auriga, the Charioteer // michel jacquet
Some of the nebulae here are the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405, left), the Tadpole Nebula (IC 410, top), IC 417 (right), and NGC 1931 (far right). There are also two open clusters towards the bottom right: NGC 1907 and the Starfish Cluster (M38).
The Spider Nebula (Sh2-234, center) and the Fly Nebula (Sh2-237, upper right) // Marc Whitsett