Face in the sky: Distant star-forming nebula has eerie human profile carved into its wall of gas and dust

As with clouds in the Earth’s sky, astronomers often find likenesses within 'cosmic clouds' - nebulas. The Wide Field Imager telescope in Chile recently captured a sharp new image of star-forming region NGC 3324, which is nicknamed the Gabriela Mistral Nebula, after the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet. You can 'see' Mistral's face in profile in the star-forming gas cloud.

The edge of the wall of gas and dust at the right is her face in profile - the bump in the centre is supposed to be Mistral's nose.

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