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Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, people around the world marked the first Earth Day. via NASA https://ift.tt/3eCY1xa

To some, it looks like a giant chicken running across the sky. To others, it looks like a gaseous nebula where star formation takes place. Cataloged as IC 2944, the Running Chicken Nebula spans about 100 light years and lies about 6,000 light years away toward the constellation of the Centaur (Centaurus). The featured image, […]