The 1.5-billion-pixel Running Chicken Nebula
While many holiday traditions involve feasts of turkey, soba noodles, latkes or Pan de Pascua, this year, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is bringing you a holiday chicken. The so-called Running Chicken Nebula, home to young stars in the making, is revealed in spectacular detail in this 1.5-billion-pixel image captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal site in Chile.
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Credit:ESO
Image: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU
Music: Mylonite – Champ Magnétique, Mylonite – A Complex System
Script: J. C. Muñoz
Editing: M. Wallner
About the Video
| Id: | eso2320a |
| Release date: | 21 December 2023, 14:00 |
| Related releases: | eso2320 |
| Duration: | 01 m 05 s |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Running Chicken Nebula |
| Type: | Milky Way : Nebula : Appearance : Emission : H II Region |
| Category: | Nebulae |
