The Running Chicken Nebula comprises several clouds, all of which we can see in this vast image from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal site. This 1.5-billion pixel image ...

Well, not quite. This year, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany has a special holiday gift for you: a picture of a nebula shaped like a running chicken. A nebula is a vast ...