Posted on 04/10/2023 11:43:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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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I can usually get why things are named the way they are, but this one has got me.
I just don’t see a chicken, running or not.
I don’t see it either. The people that named some of these things must have been on mind-altering substances.
Head in the top right corner. Feet on the bottom right corner. Body in the middle with white wings flapping. Running to the right... maybe.
Why did the chicken cross space?
#8 They drink Bud Light : )
To prove to the armadillo nebula that it could be done without getting run over.
To get the ball. To get the ball.
Ugh....I see a whitened cow skull looking left and awash in an explosion of blood, no chicken.
Cows, cattle; its the Kansas in me I guess. (Anyone in Arkansas or Kentucky see the chicken??)
Anyway, thanks MtmClimber!
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