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Veil Nebula - Hubble Palette (SHO), Jon Gascoyne
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Veil Nebula - Hubble Palette (SHO)

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Veil Nebula - Hubble Palette (SHO), Jon Gascoyne
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Veil Nebula - Hubble Palette (SHO)

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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 between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of the explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in the daytime.  The nebula is estimated to be ~2,400 light years from Earth.

Data acquired by iTelescope using Telescope T20, Utah Desert Remote Observatory, Great Basin Desert, Beryl Junction, Utah, USA

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Veil Nebula - Hubble Palette (SHO), Jon Gascoyne