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The Veil Nebula (ground-based view)


Date: 24 September 2015
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: Cygnus Loop, NGC 6960, Veil Nebula
Copyright: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2

This image shows the Veil supernova remnant and the surrounding sky. Due to the size of the Nebula the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was able to only observe a small part of it in detail.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
22-Jan-2026 07:27 UT

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