Dark matter particles outnumber ordinary, everyday matter, which comprises objects like stars, planets, moons, asteroids, cosmic clouds of gas and dust, and all living things, by about five to one.

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...