Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory have captured a new image of the nebula IC 2944, also known as the “Running Chicken,” Sci.News reports.

IC 2944 is located at a distance of almost 6.5 thousand kilometers. light years from Earth in the constellation Centauri.

The brightest zone of the nebula is called IC 2948. Some people think it looks like a chicken’s head, while others think it looks like a goose.

At the center of the nebula is the lambda Centauri, one of the brightest stars in the constellation that can be seen with the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere.

If you enlarge the image, you can see small dark and dense pockets of dust and gas scattered throughout the nebula, as well as a large number of orange, white and blue stars.

This image is a large mosaic consisting of hundreds of individual frames combined with each other. Each photo was taken through filters that transmit light of different colors.