Running Chicken Hubble Palette (SHO)

IC 2944 (The Running Chicken Nebula) is a HII region of the southern Milky Way visible in the Centaurus constellation; its distance is about 6500 light years and it is part of the Sagittarius arm, the closest spiral arm of the Milky Way located more internally than ours.

The best known feature of this cloud is the presence of some dark cocoons, known as Thackeray globules: due to their instability within them there would be no active phenomena of star formation, while their origin is due to the disintegrating action of the radiation. of massive stars in the region, which over time has eroded an ancient molecular cloud.

SII: 4x300sec
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