"Running Chicken Nebula🌌 in Amazing 1.5-Billion-Pixel Detail!" πŸ›°πŸ”­πŸŒŒ

Instead of the usual festive stuff this holiday season, treat yourself to a fantastic celestial display! The Running Chicken Nebula, home to young stars, has been revealed in stunning detail with a massive 1.5-billion-pixel image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) captured the fantastic picture at the ESO's Paranal site in Chile.


  • Located in the Centaurus constellation, about 6,500 light-years away, the Running Chicken Nebula shines in bright pink, thanks to the intense radiation from its young stars. The gigantic image covers a space in the sky equal to about 25 full moons and highlights various areas, with IC 2948 being the brightest. Some people even see a chicken's head or rear end in this region, while wispy gas and dust add a magical touch to the cosmic scenery.

  • Looking closely at the image, you'll spot IC 2944 with its bright pillar-like structure and Lambda Centauri, a star we can see with the naked eye, closer to us than the nebula. The Bok globules, tough pockets of dust and gas, glow against the constant bombardment of ultraviolet radiation from the young stars.
  • This incredible image, made up of hundreds of carefully pieced-together frames, was taken with the OmegaCAM on the VST, a telescope owned by the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy (INAF) and stationed by ESO in Chile's Atacama Desert. It adds to the VST Photometric HΞ± Survey of the VPHAS+ (Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge), improving our understanding of how stars are born and evolve.

Take a visual journey through the wonders of the Running Chicken Nebula—zoom in, move around, and get lost in a celestial show beyond your wildest dreams.πŸŒŒπŸ”­πŸͺ




#galaxy #space #spacenews #cosmos #nebula #universe #chickennebula #runningchickennebula #runningnebula #happynewyear #happynewyear2024

#solarsystem #Starbirth #babystar #ESO #VST #VLTsurveytelescope #Centaurus constellation #LambdaCentauri #OmegaCAM  #INAF 

#VPHAS+


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