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The Running Chicken Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away from Earth, is like a Rorschach test in space, with different observers seeing different shapes, from a bird’s head to a chicken’s butt. The European Southern Observatory’s VLT Survey Telescope in Chile took a new 1.5-billion-pixel image of the nebula, shedding new light on this cosmic wonder. A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas, and the Running Chicken Nebula is home to thousands of young stars in the making. These starlets release intense radiation, giving the surrounding hydrogen gas a pinkish hue. The new 1.5-billion-pixel image showcases the beauty and complexity of this vast cosmic cloud, revealing multiple stellar regions within it. The brightest region in the nebula, IC 2948, has sparked a lively debate among observers, with some seeing the bird’s head and others seeing a chicken’s butt. This image is a remarkable mosaic of hundreds of separate frames, providing unprecedented detail and insight into this celestial wonder.
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