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.
