Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1590  ·  NGC 281
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Pacman Nebula, Pepe Chambó
Pacman Nebula
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Placed into constellation of Cassiopeia near star Shedir, NGC 281 is a emission nebula colloquially named as Pacman Nebula because your resemblance with character of this videogame. Discovered by Barnard at 1883. Furthermore, it contains the open cluster IC 1590 whose brightest star HD 5005 is a multiple system formed by 5 stars with a separation between 1.4 and 15.7 arcseconds.

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This image was the  [url=http://http://aapod.astronomy.fm/2012-04-01_Pacman-Nebula.html]AAPOD on April 01, 2012[/url]

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Pacman Nebula, Pepe Chambó

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