Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1590  ·  NGC 281  ·  Sh2-184
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Pacman Nebula NGC281, Justin Hendrickson
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Pacman Nebula NGC281

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Pacman Nebula NGC281

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Not sure what they called it prior to 1980, but ever since then NCG 281 has been called the Pacman Nebula by the astronomy community. It’s 10,000 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia and is about 80 light years across. The small intense dark spots of cosmic interstellar dust and gas are called Bok globules, after Dutch-American astronomer Bart Bok, who studied them extensively in the 1940s at Harvard. The second image has the stars digitally removed to better appreciate the nebula’s structure.

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Description: Starless Pacman

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Pacman Nebula NGC281, Justin Hendrickson