Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula

By |2024-06-17T09:09:27-04:00June 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Squids on Earth aren't this big. This mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud spans nearly three full moons on planet Earth's sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded by [...]