Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2022 February 11 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. IC 342: The Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Daniel Feller Explanation: [5]Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, [6]IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years [7]distant in the long-necked, northern constellation [8]Camelopardalis. A sprawling [9]island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own [10]Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342's light is dimmed and reddened by intervening [11]cosmic clouds, this [12]sharp telescopic image traces the galaxy's own obscuring dust, young star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from [13]the galaxy's core. IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of [14]star formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the [15]local group of galaxies and the Milky Way. Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend __________________________________________________________________ [16]< | [17]Archive | [18]Submissions | [19]Index | [20]Search | [21]Calendar | [22]RSS | [23]Education | [24]About APOD | [25]Discuss | [26]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [27]Robert Nemiroff ([28]MTU) & [29]Jerry Bonnell ([30]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [31]Specific rights apply. [32]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [33]ASD at [34]NASA / [35]GSFC & [36]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/IC342Feller.jpg 3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 4. https://www.chaoticnebula.com/ 5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101209.html 6. http://spider.seds.org/spider/LG/i0342.html 7. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?2002AJ....124..839S 8. http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/cam/index.html 9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap051222.html 10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110520.html 11. http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/what1.html 12. https://www.chaoticnebula.com/2021/10/23/ic-342-the-hidden-galaxy-of-camelopardalis/ 13. http://spacetelescope.org/images/potw1727a/ 14. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/pia14402.html 15. http://messier.seds.org/xtra/ngc/maffei1g.html 16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220210.html 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 20. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 25. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=220211 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220212.html 27. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 28. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 29. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 30. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 32. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 33. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 34. https://www.nasa.gov/ 35. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 36. http://www.mtu.edu/