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Running chicken nebula glows in gorgeous new image from Very Large Telescope in Chile

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The image was taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile .

The nebula is known as IC 2872 or Gum 40; however, it is also playfully referred to as the Running Chicken Nebula .

The image is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the southern Centaurus constellation.

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