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NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula, Evangelos Souglakos
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NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula

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NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula, Evangelos Souglakos
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NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula

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Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would have suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this light was from a supernova, or exploding star, and record the expanding debris cloud as the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant.

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NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula, Evangelos Souglakos