The Enchanting Beauty of the Running Chicken Nebula Captured in Stunning New ESO Image

In the‌ brightest region within the nebula, some observers see the bird’s head, while others‌ see ⁤a chicken’s butt. A nebula can look like a ​lot of different ‌animals—a crab, tarantula, seagull, a ‌cat’s ⁢eye, and even a chicken on the run.⁢ The European Southern Observatory’s VLT Survey ⁢Telescope in Chile took a new⁢ 1.5-billion-pixel image‌ of IC 2944 aka the Running Chicken Nebula. ​It is located roughly 6,500 light-years away from⁣ Earth in the constellation Centaurus and this new ​image ⁣shows the nebula in new ⁢detail.Learn more by reading more on this‍ ​ link