A stellar nursery hidden in Scorpius, the Dark Tower is a glowing, wind-sculpted cloud of gas shaped by young stars’ radiation.
Astronomers are known for their unusual naming conventions, and the cometary globule GN 16.43.7.01 is no exception. Despite the name, cometary globules have nothing to do with comets — they simply resemble them, with a dense, dusty head and a long, dark tail. This particular globule is captured in an image taken by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at the European…