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The Running Chicken Nebula, IC 2948 // Jeff Reitzel
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The Running Chicken Nebula, IC 2948 // Jeff Reitzel
The Running Chicken Nebula, IC 2944 // Anthony Brunet-Bessette
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The vast dark cloud, visible in the lower part of the image, is usually referred to as the Coalsack Nebula; it also has a preeminent role in the Australian Aboriginal culture, representing the head of an emu in the traditional constellation of the "Emu in the Sky".
The ruddy object glowing in the upper part of the image owes its colour to the blaze of hydrogen gas. Catalogued as IC 2948, this emission nebula hosts a sparkling cluster of young stars.
Credit: ESO/Yuri Beletsky
The Running Chicken Nebulain the constellation Centaurus
Running Chicken Nebula plus Thackeray's Bok Globules (mid-section) IC 2948 Six Filter - May 2010 by Joseph Brimacombe on Flickr.