The European Southern Observatory has captured a nebula, resembling a bat and located 10,000 light-years away, spreading its wings in the Milky Way's galactic plane.

Astronomers have captured a haunting image of a “cosmic bat” spreading its wings across deep space. This nebula, 10,000 light-years away, glows crimson as newborn stars ignite clouds of gas and dust.

The most prominent clouds here are RCW 94, which represents the right wing of the bat, and RCW 95, which forms the body, while the other parts of the bat have no official designation. Credit: ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Astronomers have ...

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This new image from JWST also reveals for the first time the full extent of the nebula's lobes, or the spider's "legs", seen ...

What you're looking at here is the aftermath of a sun-like star that eventually reached the end of its life and poofed out ...

The Al Khatim Astronomical Observatory in Abu Dhabi captured a beautiful shot of the Lion Nebula. The light caught in the ...

ABU DHABI, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Al Khatim Astronomical Observatory in Abu Dhabi has captured an image of the distant "Lion Nebula," a vast region of ionized gas and dust located about 10,000 ...

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