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This image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the world's most powerful X-ray telescope, shows the Cygnus Loop, also known as the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant of the explosive death of a massive star. This 3D model is the result of a simulation showing the interaction of a blast wave from the explosion with an isolated cloud of the interstellar medium, dust and gas in between the stars. via NASA/SAO/CXC
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#PhotoOfTheDay: Seeing the #CygnusLoop in a New Way
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory provides another way to experience this data: three-dimensional (3D) models that allow people to explore – and print – examples of stars in the early and end stages of their lives.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/seeing-the-cygnus-loop-in-a-new-way/
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📸 Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Ancient Supernova
About 7,000 years ago, a star exploded in the Milky Way, creating the Veil Nebula. Once as bright as a crescent Moon, it now appears as delicate filaments of gas in the constellation Cygnus. This image from Kuwait in 2024 shows hydrogen in red and oxygen in blue.
📷 Abdullah Alharbi / NASA APOD
#VeilNebula #SupernovaRemnant #APOD #CygnusLoop #Astrophotography #Space #StellarSnap -
📸 Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Ancient Supernova
About 7,000 years ago, a star exploded in the Milky Way, creating the Veil Nebula. Once as bright as a crescent Moon, it now appears as delicate filaments of gas in the constellation Cygnus. This image from Kuwait in 2024 shows hydrogen in red and oxygen in blue.
📷 Abdullah Alharbi / NASA APOD
#VeilNebula #SupernovaRemnant #APOD #CygnusLoop #Astrophotography #Space #StellarSnap -
📸 Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Ancient Supernova
About 7,000 years ago, a star exploded in the Milky Way, creating the Veil Nebula. Once as bright as a crescent Moon, it now appears as delicate filaments of gas in the constellation Cygnus. This image from Kuwait in 2024 shows hydrogen in red and oxygen in blue.
📷 Abdullah Alharbi / NASA APOD
#VeilNebula #SupernovaRemnant #APOD #CygnusLoop #Astrophotography #Space #StellarSnap -
📸 Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Ancient Supernova
About 7,000 years ago, a star exploded in the Milky Way, creating the Veil Nebula. Once as bright as a crescent Moon, it now appears as delicate filaments of gas in the constellation Cygnus. This image from Kuwait in 2024 shows hydrogen in red and oxygen in blue.
📷 Abdullah Alharbi / NASA APOD
#VeilNebula #SupernovaRemnant #APOD #CygnusLoop #Astrophotography #Space #StellarSnap -
📸 Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Ancient Supernova
About 7,000 years ago, a star exploded in the Milky Way, creating the Veil Nebula. Once as bright as a crescent Moon, it now appears as delicate filaments of gas in the constellation Cygnus. This image from Kuwait in 2024 shows hydrogen in red and oxygen in blue.
📷 Abdullah Alharbi / NASA APOD
#VeilNebula #SupernovaRemnant #APOD #CygnusLoop #Astrophotography #Space #StellarSnap -
Filaments of the Cygnus Loop
Subtle and delicate in appearance, these ribbons of shocked interstellar gas are part of a blast wave at the expanding edge of a violent stellar explosion that would have been easily visible to humans during the late stone age, about 20,000 years ago.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Blair; Acknowledgement: Leo Shatz
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NASA's set to launch a mission through the night
To study an ancient supernova's light
Soon the INFUSE mission will take flight
Heading toward the Cygnus Loop bright
The White Sands Missile Range is the perfect site
To send this mission to its destined height
To witness a 20,000 year old sight -
Day 1525 #DailyPhoto #SkyWatch #Astrophotography The #BatNebula aka #IC1340 is part of the #CygnusLoop connected to the #EasternVeil Nebula. It was discovered in 1864 by Truman Henry Safford, the director of the Hopkins Observatoey at Williams College. This image is 11 ten-minute exposures captured with a 571mm scope using a dual band filter that blocks the whole light spectrum except the bands for ionized hydrogen and oxygen. #StillLearning
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Cygnus Loop
Around 725pc (2400ly) distant, the Cygnus Loop (Sharpless Sh2-103) is an emission nebula in Cygnus nearly 3° across, a large supernova remnant caused by a star 12-15 solar masses (unidentified).
Prints, etc: https://shiny.photo/photo/Cygnus-Loop-973a46a9ee9ac1db85339d88f7988077
Details: https://telescopius.com/pictures/view/124555/deep_sky/veil-nebula/supernova-remnant/by-xylophilist
#Astrophotograhy #photography #cygnusloop #SupernovaRemnant #pixinsight #darktable #nebula