Home / ‘Pacman’ Nebula NGC 281 Gets Some Teeth. Posted in Press Release ‘Pacman’ Nebula NGC 281 Gets Some Teeth by SpaceRef October 27, 2011. Click to share on X (Opens in new window) ...

NGC 281, discovered by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard five years before Dreyer published the NGC, is called the Pacman Nebula because a dust cloud gives it a “mouth” like the ...

The edge-on aspect of NGC 281 allows scientists to study the effects of powerful X-rays on the gas in the region, the raw material for star formation. Image credit: NASA/CXC/CfA/S.Wolk et al ...

NGC 281 spans 80 light-years and is about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered in August 1883 by E.E. Barnard who described his find as 'a large faint nebula, ...

To visible-light telescopes, the star-forming cloud (NGC 281) appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the Pacman Nebula, like the famous Pac-Man video game that debuted ...

Spectroscopic analysis of 39 blue straggler stars in NGC 3201 determined a mean radial velocity of 498 km/s, effective temperatures between 6,260–8,690 K, metallicity of –1.42 dex, and a ...

Hubble observations of NGC 1754 confirm it as a compact, old globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, with a core radius of 2.74 light years, half-mass radius of 10.2 light years, age of 12 ...

Night sky photographers Bob and Janice Fera took this photo of the Pacman Nebula, also known as NGC 281, on Sept. 8-11, 2012 from Eagle Ridge Observatory in Foresthill, Ca.

A new image of NGC 281, also nicknamed the Pacman nebula, reveals a gaping mouth and a set of sharp-looking teeth. The teeth are made up of pillars in the nebula where new stars may be forming.

The Bok globules in NGC 281 are visually striking nonetheless. They are silhouetted against the luminous pink hydrogen gas of the emission nebula, creating a stark visual contrast.

The Pacman nebula, also called NGC 281, is located 9,200 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. This image was made from observations by all four infrared detectors aboard WISE.

NGC 281 is located nearly 9,500 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: P. McCullough (STScI) ...