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Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesxploring the gas cloud known as IC2948 means finding your way across countless nascent stars born in this enormous stellar nursery, just a snippet of a much larger object: the Running Chicken Nebula.
The vast pocket of the nursery, taken by ESO's VLT Survey Telescope in Chile, indeed envelopes you. The image captures the brightest slice of the so-called, a distant gas cloud toward the constellation Centaurus named after its distinct fowl-like appearance. The featured region, known as IC 2948, appears to some as the cosmic fowl's head and to others as its rear end.
The IC 2948 patch is stuffed with bright gas and dust"plumage" as well as sprinkled with blue stars, the hue a telltale sign of the stellar bodies' hot and young existences. The"Here, we find creeping dark clouds, shaped like open hands about to grab their surrounding blooming stars," ESO said. Telescope images of the Running Chicken Nebula and various other nebulas show there are at least a few survivors of the radiation blast: the isolated compact, dark wisps of gas and dust seen silhouetted against the nebula's bright backdrop. When German-British astronomerThese"holes" are now called Bok globules, named after the Dutch-American astronomer Bart Bok who first observed the dark clouds in the 1940s and likened them to insects' cocoons.
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