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Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula

By |2025-03-26T09:09:10-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day You'd think the Pacman Nebula would be eating stars, but actually it is forming them. Within the nebula, a cluster's young, massive stars are powering the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-catching shapes looming in the featured portrait of NGC 281 are sculpted dusty columns and dense Bok globules seen in [...]

Stars and Dust in the Pacman Nebula

By |2024-11-18T08:09:10-05:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as [...]

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