The pool, one of the largest in Palm Beach, serves the Rousseau family all year round. Unlike most of the island’s residents, the Rousseaus do not leave their beloved island, even in the sweltering heat of summer.
Inside the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and you’ll find the stars of open cluster IC 1590. Formed within the nebula, the cluster’s young, massive stars ultimately power the nebular glow. The eye-catching shapes looming in the portrait of NGC 281 are dusty columns and dense silhouettes of Bok globules, eroded by intense winds and radiation from the hot cluster stars. If they survive long enough, the dusty structures could also be sites of future star formation. Otherwise known as the Pacman Nebula because of its overall shape, NGC 281 is about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. This sharp composite image was made through narrow-band filters. It combines emission from the nebula’s hydrogen and oxygen atoms to synthesize red, green, and blue colors. The scene spans well over 80 light-years.
