Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Vela (Vel)  ·  Contains:  The star e Vel
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Section of the Vela Supernova remnant, gregengland
Section of the Vela Supernova remnant
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Section of the Vela Supernova remnant

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Section of the Vela Supernova remnant, gregengland
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Section of the Vela Supernova remnant

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In the constellation Vela (the Sails), are the glowing filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. In addition to the shocked filaments of glowing gas, the cosmic catastrophe also left behind an incredibly dense, rotating stellar core, the Vela Pulsar. Some 800 light-years distant.
An area of the sky I keep coming back to image, there is so much detail in the filaments of the supernova explosion.
So lucky to be able to image this target from my backyard, one of my favourites.

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