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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
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#VeilNebula: Wisps of an Ancient #Supernova
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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250602.html

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Salvaging of a failed session on the Western Veil Nebula.
Unfortunately, I had huge reflection issues, as shown in the second image.
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#SkyWatch #Astrophotography The #VeilNebula is a supernova remnant about 2400 light years away in the #Cygnus constellation. When the star exploded to create the supernova 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, it would have been brighter than Venus and visible during the day. This image, taken with a 250mm lens, shows the #WesternVeil on the left and #PickeringsTriangle in the upper right. I will revisit this subject again in the future to try to capture the whole Veil in the same frame. #StillLearning

#SkyWatch #Astrophotography #NGC6960 aka the Witch's Broom Nebula is part of a supernova remnant called the #VeilNebula in the #Cygnus constellation. The supernova occurred 10,000 to 20,000 years ago when a star 20 more massive than our sun exploded. This image is 4 hours of exposure that I captured last night. The red comes from hydrogen in the nebula and the blue comes from oxygen. #StillLearning

For me, this part of the nebula always looks a bit like an alien face in the profile.

Blog: https://smilingj.net/blog/2022/09/2022-09-21_eastern_veil.html

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#VeilNebula: #Wisps of an #ExplodedStar
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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210405.html

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