Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 1340  ·  NGC 6992  ·  NGC 6995  ·  Network nebula  ·  Veil nebula
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NGC6992 The Eastern Veil Nebula, Randal Healey
NGC6992 The Eastern Veil Nebula
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NGC6992 The Eastern Veil Nebula

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NGC6992 The Eastern Veil Nebula, Randal Healey
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NGC6992 The Eastern Veil Nebula

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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 (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103), a large but relatively faint supernova remnant. The source supernova exploded circa 3,000 BC to 6,000 BC, 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). 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.

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NGC6992 The Eastern Veil Nebula, Randal Healey