This is IC405, the Flaming Star Nebula in the constellation Auriga. Like the Tadpoles Nebula, it is a star-forming region. As new stars form from the gas and dust in the nebula, they provide the ionizing radiation that makes the gas in the nebula glow (emission nebula). The dust in the nebula reflects the intense starlight (reflection nebula). The complete effect is quite pretty. The nebula is about 1,500 LY from Earth, and it spans some five light years across.
This image is the composite of 44, 6-minute frames captured through the 130mm f/5 astrograph using a quad narrow-band filter. It is the fruit of last night’s imaging session in my backyard. A wider-field astrograph would show that the Tadpoles Nebula lies in the same visual field although it is actually another 10,000 LY further away from us.