The Chandra data of NGC 281 show more than 300 individual X-ray sources, most of which are associated with the central star cluster. The edge-on aspect of NGC 281 allows scientists to study the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed dense knots of dust and gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. This cosmic dust is a concentration of elements that are responsible for the formation of stars in ...

The New General Catalogue (NGC), published in 1888 by John Louis Emil Dreyer, compiled data from approximately 50 sources, including the Herschel catalogs, to list 7,840 nebulae and star clusters. The ...

For 3 million years, this beautiful smudge of gas has been bursting with new stars. Just under 10,000 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia, NGC 281 is busy with everything from ...

Orion Nebula: It is a cloud of dust and gas located in the constellation Orion. Thousands of stars are being born there. NGC 281: Dark, dense clumps of gas and dust known as 'Bok globules' can be seen ...

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 in ...

The nebula NGC 281 was first identified over 100 years ago by American astronomer E. E. Barnard, but today, many scientists know this massive cloud of dust and gas not as “NGC 281” but as “The Pacman ...

This incredible cosmic image shows a nebula with an open cluster of stars inside it. Described by Nasa as 'a busy workshop of star formation', NGC 281 is better known as the Pac-Man Nebula due to its ...

To visible-light telescopes, this star-forming cloud appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the “Pacman” nebula, like the famous Pac-Man video game that debuted in 1980.

The yearly ritual of spring cleaning clears a house of dust as well as dust “bunnies,” those pesky dust balls that frolic under beds and behind furniture. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has ...

The red dots sprinkled throughout the picture are thought to be the youngest stars, still forming in cocoons of dust. The Pacman nebula, also called NGC 281, is located 9,200 light-years away in the ...