Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  32 Vul  ·  49 Cyg  ·  52 Cyg  ·  53 eps Cyg  ·  BW Vul  ·  Filamentary nebula  ·  Gienah  ·  IC 1340  ·  Lace-work nebula  ·  NGC 6960  ·  NGC 6974  ·  NGC 6979  ·  NGC 6992  ·  NGC 6995  ·  Network nebula  ·  Sh2-103  ·  T Vul  ·  The star 32Vul  ·  The star 49Cyg  ·  The star 52Cyg  ·  The star Gienah (εCyg)  ·  Veil nebula
Veil Nebula in Cygnus 3 x 2 Mosaic, Sigga
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Veil Nebula in Cygnus 3 x 2 Mosaic

Veil Nebula in Cygnus 3 x 2 Mosaic, Sigga
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Veil Nebula in Cygnus 3 x 2 Mosaic

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The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus

It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, which exploded around 8,000 years ago. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full Moon). The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.

--Wikipedia

3 x 2 mosaic in luminance only (colour in progress), each panel 3 x 300 secondswith 20% overlap calculated. Stitched in MSFT ICE.

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