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The Pacman Nebula

The Pacman Nebula
Date taken Wed Sep 28 2011 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases NGC 281 · Chandra X-ray Observatory,Spitzer Space Telescope Metadata JSON

Behind the image

This composite image of the star cluster NGC 28 contains X-ray data from Chandra, in purple, with infrared observations from Spitzer, in red, green, blue. NGC 281 is known informally as the Pacman Nebula because of its appearance in optical images.