IC 2948: The Running Chicken Nebula

Beautiful photo, but where is the chicken? I don’t see one.

It’s one of those photos that you have to put real close to your face, then slowly pull away while staring at one point… :laughing: Then the chicken will come. Or wait… Will it be the egg?? Hm… The chicken… or the egg… That’s the question. :smiley:

Why did the chicken cross the universe?

Because he was stapled to the Starship Enterprise.

I can see it, but it’s a stretch. It’s facing to the right. The bright double star near the centre is close to the joint of the wing, which sweeps up and to the left from there.

I can’t see any feet, but I know in the Zelda games running chickens have their wings up like that.

Here’s another picture of the same nebula.
I wonder if the blob on the right is supposed to be the chicken’s head???


http://eaas.proboards31.com/index.cgi?board=observing&action=display&thread=2234




http://www.mypetchicken.com/Leghorn_pu-X8.aspx

Why did the electron cross the road?

Because someone rubbed a balloon on the chicken.

(my son’s favorite joke)

To get to the Aether side.

I like lining the chicken up this way-- looks like its head is stretched out




Then there’s the as yet undiscovered Rubber Chicken Nebula.

Dude! That is BAD! :smiley:

KAC

Heeheehee :smiley:

:laughing:
You were just waiting to use that one!!! (I don’t imagine the opportunity comes along too often).

It does not. Thanks for the alley-oop, there.

HA!!! :laughing:

You know, there is something inherently funny about chickens. I don’t know why. There just is. It is a fundamental truth of the Universe.*

Tom

*at risk of landing this perfectly innocent thread in that other forum…