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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                    2022 May 6   
      
                        NGC 3572 and the Southern Tadpoles   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Taylor   
      
      Explanation: This cosmic skyscape features glowing gas and dark dust   
      clouds along side the young stars of NGC 3572. A beautiful emission   
      nebula and star cluster it sails far southern skies within the nautical   
      constellation Carina. Stars from NGC 3572 are toward top center in the   
      telescopic frame that would measure about 100 light-years across at the   
      cluster's estimated distance of 9,000 light-years. The visible   
      interstellar gas and dust is part of the star cluster's natal molecular   
      cloud. Dense streamers of material within the nebula, eroded by stellar   
      winds and radiation, clearly trail away from the energetic young stars.   
      They are likely sites of ongoing star formation with shapes reminiscent   
      of the Tadpoles of IC 410 better known to northern skygazers. In the   
      coming tens to hundreds of millions of years, gas and stars in the   
      cluster will be dispersed though, by gravitational tides and by violent   
      supernova explosions that end the short lives of the massive cluster   
      stars.   
      
                     Tomorrow's picture: firefall by moonlight   
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