Astronomers have captured the glowing "wings" of a vast nebula shaped like a bat, unfurling in deep space about 10,000 light-years from Earth in the constellations Circinus and Norma, just in time for Halloween!

The nebula's haunting outline t is carved from swirling clouds of gas and dust inside a vast stellar nursery. These clouds glow as hydrogen atoms within them are energized by intense radiation pouring from the energetic population of young stars embedded within.

Dark filaments of interstellar dust thread through the nebula scene, can be seen blocking the light of the nebula clouds beyond. These twisting giants are rich with star-forming material from which a new generation of stellar behemoths will be born. Our brain's natural propensity for creating order out of chaos causes som

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