NASA 오늘의 천문 사진 (2022-08-10)

NASA 오늘의 천문 사진 (2022-08-10)

Dust Clouds of the Pacman Nebula

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안녕하세요.

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day

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이 사진의 제목은 Dust Clouds of the Pacman Nebula 입니다. NASA에서 공식적으로 제공한 설명을 보시죠.

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Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to disperse and glow red. Pictured here, a new open cluster of stars designated IC 1590 is nearing completion around the intricate interstellar dust structures in the emission nebula NGC 281, dubbed the Pac-man Nebula because of its overall shape. The dust cloud on the upper left is classified as a Bok Globule as it may gravitationally collapse and form a star -- or stars. The Pacman Nebula lies about 10,000 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia.

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