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Zoom into Veil Nebula

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 has expanded to a diameter of roughly 110 light-years. Our zoom continues down to a two-light-year-wide segment of the nebula as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble resolves tangled rope-like filaments of glowing gases.
  • Release Date
    September 24, 2015
  • Science Release
    Hubble Zooms in on Shrapnel from an Exploded Star
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  • Credits
    NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI); Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Digitized Sky Survey ((DSS) STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska, Anchorage) and WIYN/NOAO/AURA/NSF, and A. Fujii

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Feb 17, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
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