Its found in the constellation of Auriga (the Charioteer) some 12,000 light years away and 4 million years old.
In order to get this image I shot 35 exposures of 6 minutes each (That's 3.5 hours).
I chose a moonless night so that the sky was as dark as possible.
The longer the exposure the more detail, and I wanted to pic up the two Tadpoles which name the nebula.
If you look closely just below the centre of the picture you can see the enormous tadpoles (10 light years long) where new stars are being born.
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