NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning image of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant located 2,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. What you’re looking at is the remnants of a star 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded approximately 10,000 years ago.
The image makes use of three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument to highlight emission from hydrogen, sulfur and oxygen atoms. However, it only shows a small fraction of the Veil Nebula, as if you were to observe the nebula without using a telescope, it would be as wide as six full Moons placed side by side.
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A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. It is made of translucent clouds of gas: wispy and thin with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Bright and pointlike stars are scattered across the nebula,” said the ESA./
