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Indian astronomers spot over 200 new stars in the Pacman Nebula and 51 of them are yet to reach adulthood
Indian astronomers spot over 200 new stars in the Pacman Nebula and 51 of them are yet to reach adulthood
Prabhjote GillApr 14, 2021, 10:22 IST
The star-forming cloud catalogued as NGC 281 appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the Pacman nebula after the famous Pac-Man video game of the 1980sWide-field Infrared Survey Explorer/NASA Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Science (ARIES) have discovered 228 new variable stars in the
Pacman Nebula.
The cosmic cloud of gas and dust is located 1,000 light years above the plane of the Milky Way offering a clear view of the star-making process,