Astronomers Capture Stunning Image of Dark Wolf Nebula

The European Southern Observatory reveals a detailed view of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a star-forming region in the Scorpius constellation.

The Dark Wolf Nebula is located 5,300 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius and is part of the larger Gum 55 nebula.
Captured by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, the image consists of 283 million pixels.
Dark nebulae like the Dark Wolf are dense clouds of cosmic dust that obscure visible light, making them key sites for star formation.
The image highlights the nebula's wolf-like silhouette against a backdrop of glowing hydrogen gas clouds excited by newborn stars.
The data used to create the image is part of the VST Photometric Hα Survey, which has studied 500 million objects in the Milky Way.