NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope takes you inside the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnants that spans 110 light-years across, located about 2,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. We can see massive wisps of gas, which are all that remain of what was once a star 20 times more massive than our Sun.
What might surprise you is that the Veil Nebula is actually the visible portion of the nearby Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant formed roughly 10,000 years ago by the death of a massive star. Despite this stellar activity, the shockwaves and debris from the supernova are what formed the Veil Nebula’s delicate tracery of ionized gas.
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To create this colorful image, observations were taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument using five different filters. The new post-processing methods have further enhanced details of emissions from doubly ionized oxygen (seen here in blues), ionized hydrogen, and ionized nitrogen (seen here in reds),” said the NASA Hubble Mission Team.
