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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Astronomy Tuesday
This is known as the Running Chicken Nebula, in the southern constellation Centaurus.
Okay, a chicken? Really? I see a bulldog face -- or maybe a hippo -- but no poultry. Maybe it's more obvious where the name came from in a less detailed image. The photographer, Andrew Campbell, took an 11-hour exposure from a backyard near Melbourne to capture this shot. I can't even imagine the equipment required to track an astronomical object across the sky for 11 hours when I sometimes can't manage to get a clear shot of a perfectly stationary building, so kudos to Mr. Campbell.
Image Credit and Copyright: Andrew Campbell
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