Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Stern
Explanation: To some, it looks like a giant chicken running across the sky. To others, it looks like a gaseous nebula where star formation takes place.
Cataloged as
IC 2944, the
Running Chicken Nebula spans about 100 light years and lies about 6,000
light years away toward the constellation of the
Centaur (Centaurus). The
featured image, shown in
scientifically assigned colors, was captured recently in a 16-hour exposure over three nights. The
star cluster Collinder 249 is visible embedded in the nebula's glowing gas.
Although difficult to discern here, several dark molecular clouds with distinct shapes can be found inside the nebula.
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