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3-D Flyover Visualization of Veil Nebula
- Release DateSeptember 24, 2015
- Science ReleaseHubble Zooms in on Shrapnel from an Exploded Star
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This video opens with a backyard view of the nighttime sky centered on the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. We zoom into a vast donut-shaped feature called the Veil Nebula. It is the tattered expanding bubble of debris from a star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. The bubble...
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov