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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2022 August 10   
      
                         Dust Clouds of the Pacman Nebula   
         Image Credit & Copyright: Douglas J. Struble (Future World Media)   
      
      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 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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