IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula

Capture

Seestar s50 480 stacks

Date

25 April 2026

Location

Camden, NSW

Original

1080 × 1920 px

IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula is an open cluster with an associated emission nebula found in the constellation Centaurus. It is a cloud of gas and newborn stars that lies around 6,500 light-years away from us. The nebula is a vast region of hydrogen gas and dust populated by young, blue, exceptionally hot stars. In a few million years, the most massive of these blue stars will go out as supernovae. Apparent magnitude 4.5

See it in the nebulas gallery