tadpole

"This image swirls with light, energy and a feeling of synchronised movement between the lilies and the tadpole tails," said Kathy Moran, Jury Chair and Editor.

The cloud is nicknamed “Tadpole” due to its curved shape.

Tadpole is located at about 27,000 light-years away from Earth, in the Sagittarius constellation.

The research team suspects a massive yet small object behind the curved shape of the Tadpole.

Researchers then began to look for bright, massive objects at the centre of Tadpole’s orbit, like the Sun at the centre of our Solar System.