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Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
A Dust Cloud in NGC 281
Explanation:
Stars themselves can create huge and intricate dust sculptures [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] from the dense and dark molecular cloud [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]s from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light [ http://imagers.gsfc…] and fast stellar winds [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust [ http://en.wikipedia…] as well as causing ambient hydrogen [ http://periodic.lan…] gas to disperse and glow [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] red. Pictured above [ http://hubblesite.o…], a new open cluster of stars designated IC 1590 is nearing completion around the intricate interstellar mountain [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] named NGC 281 [ http://heritage.sts…]. The dust cloud NGC 281, dubbed the Pacman [ http://en.wikipedia…] nebula because of its overall shape [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], is classified as a dense Bok Globule [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] that lies about 10,000 light years [ http://chandra.harv…] distant.
Credit and Copyright:
NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov…], ESA [ http://www.spacetel…], The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.sts…] Team, (STScI [ http://www.stsci.ed…] / AURA [ http://www.aura-ast…]) and P. McCullough [ http://heritage.sts…] (STScI [ http://www.stsci.ed…])
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Aura
facet_what:
FAST
facet_what:
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
facet_what:
New General Catalogue (NGC)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap060420

A Dust Cloud in NGC 281
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