rCW 61

RCW 61, also known as GUM 41.First identified in 1955 by Colin Gum, an astronomer in Australia, RCW 61 / Gum 41 is around 7,300 light years from the Earth in the southern constellation Centaurus, home to a number of nebulae in which young stars are being formed.RCW 61 / Gum 41, for all its immense size, is just a small portion of a larger cosmic structure, the Lambda Centauri Nebula, known colloquially to astronomers as the Running Chicken Nebula.