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2023年8月28日 Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Craig Stocks Explanation: Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and you might miss the stars of open cluster IC 1590. Formed within the nebula, that cluster’s young, massive stars ultimately power the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-catching shapes looming in the...
2022年8月10日 Dust Clouds of the Pacman Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Douglas J. Struble (Future World Media) Explanation: 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...
2021年11月19日 NGC 281: Starless with Stars Image Credit & Copyright: Wido Oerlemans – X-ray: Chandra, Infrared: Spitzer Explanation: In visible light the stars have been removed from this narrow-band image of NGC 281, a star forming region some 10,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia. Stars were digitally added back to the result...