Just about to go back to the summit to film sunrise, but had to share UKIRT’s image of the chicken nebula. An imposing presence, especially when I kept catching his/her gaze out the corner of my eye while trying to conduct an interview.
However, as this is a region in which stars are forming and the Egg Nebula is a planetary (marking the end of a Sun-like star’s life) we can definitively conclude that the chicken does come before the egg.