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

NGC281 / Pacman Nebula, Jeff Donaldson
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NGC281 / Pacman Nebula

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Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and you might miss the stars of open cluster IC 1590. Still, formed within the nebula that cluster's young, massive stars ultimately power the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-catching shapes looming in this portrait of NGC 281 are sculpted dusty columns and dense Bok Globules seen in silhouette, eroded by intense, energetic winds and radiation from the hot cluster stars. If they survive long enough, the dusty structures could also be sites of future star formation. Playfully called the Pacman Nebula because of its overall shape, NGC 281 is about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

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Description: 2x Drizzle

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Description: Reprocessed in the Hubble (SHO) Pallet. .7 Blue and .3 green used to create the OIII layer and Luminance of the stack used as SII.

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NGC281 / Pacman Nebula, Jeff Donaldson