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Image of the day 08/18/2014

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The Veil Nebula, Oliver Czernetz
The Veil Nebula
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The Veil Nebula

Image of the day 08/18/2014

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The Veil Nebula, Oliver Czernetz
The Veil Nebula
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The Veil Nebula

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The Veil Nebula

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. The source supernova exploded some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full moon).

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Image Assembly and Processing: Oliver Czernetz

Data courtesy: POSS-II Survey

Software: Fits Liberator, RegiStar, Photoshop CS5E, PixInsight Core 1.8.0 RC7 Ripley.

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(The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.)

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The Veil Nebula, Oliver Czernetz