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cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️

Bok Bok Bok Globules in the Running Chicken

With the Moon near full and so bright, and high cloud, I thought I’d waste a night trying to catch a closer view of the bok globules in Lambda Centauri that were just visible in an image from last week - misanthrope.social/@cafuego/11

Well that turned out really well, despite conditions!

Each of these dark cocoons (about 6000 light years away) is much larger than our entire solar system and contains one or more proto-stars, whose gravity keeps the dust cloud together despite the radiation from all the bright stars around them eating away at it.

If you pointed the JWST at them, you’d be able to see them glowing in infrared-red. Sadly that is slightly beyond my budget.

#astrophotography #astrodon #space #Astronomy

72 x 300 seconds with :meade_lx200_acf_ota: :zwo_duo_filter: :zwo_294mc: :zwo_am5:

Streaks and swirls of yellowish gas near the center of the lambda centauri nebula. A cluster of bright stars sits at the center, but amongst those stars are also oddly shaped black blobs where dust is cocooning around newly forming stars.
Cropped view of the bright stars and dark dust blobs.
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cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️

I see the 🐓!

For the longest time I wondered why Lambda Centauri was called the running chicken nebula, but I see it now!

This sits in the southern Milky Way between the more famous eta carina and the southern cross. It is very pretty all by itself though.

If you look really carefully at the center of the nebula you’ll see some tiny dark blobs. Those are dusty cocoons called Bok Globules that surround forming stars.

Or maybe they should be bok bok bok globules in this case.

Once those stars switch on, their radiation will blow away the cocoon.

I have included a “starless” image which makes these blobs a bit easier to spot.

143 x 300 seconds :wo_redcat_61: :zwo_duo_filter: :zwo_294mc: :zwo_am5: HHO processed with @Siril_Official

A large bright nebula surrounded by dark dust and smaller nebulosity. If you squint just so, it can vaguely look like a chicken running at you. A bright star cluster sits at bottom left. Silhouetted against the bright center of the nebula are tiny black cocoons of dust. All of this sits on a dense field of stars.
The same nebula, but with all stars removed. This makes the small dark dusty cocoons much easier to see.
#astrophotography#space#astrodon
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ESO

This week we celebrated 100 years of planetaria –– amazing venues to bring the Universe down to Earth.

How have they changed over the years? In our latest ESO blog we explore how both the technology and content shown at planetaria have evolved.

Check it out: eso.org/public/blog/100-years-

www.eso.orgESOblog: 100 years of planetaria Sharing knowledge about the Universe100 years of planetaria
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