Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  52 Cyg  ·  Filamentary nebula  ·  Lace-work nebula  ·  NGC 6960  ·  NGC 6979  ·  Sh2-103  ·  The star 52Cyg  ·  Veil nebula
NGC6960 Veil Nebula, Sergiy_Vakulenko
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NGC6960 Veil Nebula

NGC6960 Veil Nebula, Sergiy_Vakulenko
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NGC6960 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, 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. 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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NGC6960 Veil Nebula, Sergiy_Vakulenko

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