Wallpaper author:
Walter Borghini
20 Jun 2025
RUNNING CHICKEN NEBULA
The "Running Chicken Nebula" is a star-forming region of the southern Milky Way visible in the constellation of Centaurus, the distance is about 6,500 light years. It is part of the "Sagittarius Arm" the closest spiral arm of our galaxy located more internally than the "Orion Arm" where our Solar System resides.
Processing performed with PixInsight, StarXTerminator, PaintShop.
Dataset from which the image was processed
IC 2944 Mosaic
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