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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2025 February 6   
      
                           IC 2574: Coddington's Nebula   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Lorand Fenyes   
      
      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.   
      
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