Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant is a photograph by Marco Oliveira which was uploaded on January 22nd, 2016.
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Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant
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Marco Oliveira
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Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant
Image Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Retouching by Marco Oliveira
ABOUT THIS IMAGE:
Hubble Zooms in on Shrapnel from an Exploded Star
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago.
Called the Veil Nebula, the debris is one of the best-known supernova remnants, deriving its name from its delicate, draped filamentary structures. The entire nebula is 110 light-years across, covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth, and resides about 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan.
This view is a mosaic of six Hubble pictures of a small area roughly two light-years across, covering only a tiny fraction of the nebula's vast structure.
This close-up look unveils wisps of gas, which are all that remain of what was once a star 20 times more massive than our sun. The fast-moving blast wave from the ancient explosion is plowing into a wall of cool, denser interstellar gas, emitting light. The nebula lies along the edge of a large bubble of low-density gas that was blown into space by the dying star prior to its self-detonation.
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January 22nd, 2016
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