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W5: Pillars of Star Formation

By |2025-06-23T12:44:35-04:00June 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How do stars form? Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, later NEOWISE) satellite provide clear clues with indications that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. A likely [...]

Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula

By |2025-03-26T09:09:10-04:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day You'd think the Pacman Nebula would be eating stars, but actually it is forming them. Within the nebula, a cluster's young, massive stars are powering the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-catching shapes looming in the featured portrait of NGC 281 are sculpted dusty columns and dense Bok globules seen in [...]

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