The Spider and The Fly
Tags: Cosmos (770)
Emission Nebula (93)
Constellation Auriga (1)
IC 417 (3)
NGC 1931 (3)
Reflection Nebula (60)
Copyright: Joe Morris
Model: gemini-2.0-flash-exp
Prompt version: 1.0
Model: gemini-2.0-flash-exp
Prompt version: 1.0
Will the spider ever catch the fly? Not if both are large Emission Nebulas toward the Constellation Auriga.
The spider-shaped gas cloud on the left is actually an Emission Nebula labelled IC 417, while the smaller fly-shaped cloud on the right is dubbed NGC 1931 and is both an Emission Nebula and a Reflection Nebula.
About 10,000 light-years distant, both Nebulas harbor young, open Star Clusters. For scale, the more compact NGC 1931 (Fly) is about 10 light-years across.