VLT telescope images cosmic nebula resembling a bat above Chile
Astronomers have captured a striking cloud of gas and dust shaped like a bat high above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal site in Chile. The cosmic bat was imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), whose expansive field of view revealed a nebula spanning four full Moons. Located roughly 10,000 light-years away, this nebula lies between the southern constellations Circinus and Nor