Even the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's classic tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, noted for its mischievous grin, didn't have a smile as wide as this cosmic cat.
A distant stellar nursery appears as a grinning celestial feline with a head that is around 150 light-years wide in a new image released by the European Southern Observatory. The near-circular cloud of orange and red dust was captured in intricate detail by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile.
