IC2948 is the less-than-spectacular catalogue number for a nebula in the constellation Centaurus. The more popular name is the Running Chicken Nebula. Steve Crouch, an avid astro-photographer in the Canberra Astronomical Society, took the image below and asks, “Can everyone see the running chicken?”. Well, can you?
Entries from February 2008
Astronomical Running Chickens
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Self Service Science Search
February 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
For quite a few years I have been contributing to the ABC Science forums, particularly the ABC Self Service Science forum. Over the years the forums have accumulated quite a few answers to questions on topics from quantum physics to belly-button fluff, but finding them can be a problem without an internal search facility. [...]