Why is there a gecko in the Milky Way?

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You can learn more from this Daily Mail article Now they've found the GECKO nebula: Image reveals strange dark lizard-shaped cloud lurking in Sagittarius (Damien Gayle, Feb 13, 2013).

"This image shows a mysterious dark cloud in distant space, which scientists from the European Space Organisation have decided looks just like a gecko...The bright star cluster NGC 6520 and its neighbour, the dark cloud Barnard 86...are set against millions of glowing stars from the brightest part of the Milky Way—a region so dense with stars that barely any dark sky is seen across the picture.  This part of the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer) is one of the richest star fields in the whole sky — the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. The huge number of stars that light up this region dramatically emphasize the blackness of dark clouds like Barnard 86, which appears at the centre of this new picture."

Compare the below two images. Do you think that the dark cloud Barnard 86 looks like a gecko?

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