The One Wing Cosmic Butterfly
This ethereal image, captured from Chile by the Gemini International Observatory, an NSF NOIRLab program, looks as delicate as a butterfly’s wing. It is, however, a structure known as the Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula, which is located near the center of the gigantic dark cloud Chamaeleon I, one of the closest star-forming regions in our Milky … Read more