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Veil Nebula in Cygnus Two Panel Mosaic, Sigga
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Veil Nebula in Cygnus Two Panel Mosaic

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Veil Nebula in Cygnus Two Panel Mosaic, Sigga
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Veil Nebula in Cygnus Two Panel Mosaic

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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 (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.

--Wikipedia

LRGB each panel 4 x 300 seconds. Certainly a lot of stars in this area!

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Veil Nebula in Cygnus Two Panel Mosaic, Sigga