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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                                 2024 November 18   
         A blue glowing gas background shows numerous bright stars in the   
        foreground. A dark red dust nebula is also visible toward the image   
       center. Around the edges, dark dust clouds are also visible, sometime   
      colored tan and other times dark brown. Please see the explanation for   
                            more detailed information.   
      
                        Stars and Dust in the Pacman Nebula   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Malcolm Loro   
      
      Explanation: 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. 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 just above center 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.   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: pointing clouds   
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