Zooming in on The Running Chicken Nebula & Thackeray's Globules | ESO
This zoom runs from a very wide view of the Milky Way all the way into a very close-up view of the spectacular stellar nursery IC 2944, also known as the Running Chicken Nebula. This image from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) also shows a group of thick clouds of dust known as the Thackeray globules, silhouetted against the pale pink glowing gas of the nebula. These globules are under fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation from nearby hot young stars. They are both being eroded away and also fragmenting, rather like lumps of butter dropped onto a hot frying pan. It is likely that Thackeray's globules will be destroyed before they can collapse and form new stars.
Distance: 6,500 light years
This image was released to celebrate a milestone—15 years of the European Southern Observatory's VLT.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Nick Risinger/Hiro
Duration: 56 seconds
Release Date: May 23, 2013
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