An image captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) shows a cosmic formation nicknamed the Running Chicken for the shape some see in what is actually a collection of different star-forming regions. The OmegaCAM wide-field camera mounted on the VST generated a 1.5 billion-pixel image that includes never-before-seen detail in an area 25 times the size of the full Moon. The brightest region in the nebula is cataloged as IC 2948 and corresponds to what some see as the chicken’s head and others as its rear end. Towards the center of the image, at a pillar-like structure, there’s a region cataloged as IC 2944. The brightest star is actually closer and is known as Lambda Centauri.