During my time as ESO fellow, working at the Paranal Observatory, I was lucky enough to record this mid-infrared image with VISIR during one of those winter nights in 2016 as part of my service to the community:
This cosmic serpent-like swirl is actually a multiple system of Wolf-Rayet stars whereas the swirls are formed by colliding winds.
The full story can be read here: Callingham et al. (2018)
