Friday, November 15, 2024

Dark Wolf Nebula shows off a howling good view in awesome Halloween image (video)

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The patrons of the Slaughtered Lamb, the traditional Yorkshire pub with some striking decor in John Landis’ American Werewolf in London, may want to keep their werewolf on the down low, but the European Southern Observatory (ESO) saw Halloween as the perfect opportunity to unleash an image of a cosmic beast.

This blood-curdling celestial werewolf imaged by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile is the fittingly named “Dark Wolf Nebula.” In the image, the “wolf’s head” is clear, and just under this striking apparition are dark claws that almost look like this celestial lycanthrope about to take a swipe at a terrified victim.

Part of the larger Gum 55 nebula, the Dark Wolf Nebula, couldn’t be further from the moors of East Proctor, the setting for the unforgettable werewolf attack that opens Landis’ 1981 classic that many of us will turn to for a horror fix this Halloween evening. This nebula is situated around 5,300 light-years from Earth near the heart of the Milky Way.

A full image of the Dark Wolf Nebula released to celebrate Halloween 2024 (Image credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team)

Don’t be fooled by the dark swathes of the Dark Wolf nebula that appear to form this cosmic terror. They are anything but empty. These dark patches are filled with dense and cold cosmic gas and dust.



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