APOD: 2020 September 28 - Filaments of the Cygnus Loop

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Belated thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Monday, September 28, 2020 entitled "Filaments of the Cygnus Loop."

Image: Filaments of the Cygnus Loop-Image Credit - ESA -Hubble & NASA, W. Blair; Acknowledgement - Leo Shatz

APOD Background
"Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Blair; Acknowledgement: Leo Shatz
Explanation: What lies at the edge of an expanding supernova? Subtle and delicate in appearance, these ribbons of shocked interstellar gas are part of a blast wave at the expanding edge of a violent stellar explosion that would have been easily visible to humans during the late stone age, about 20,000 years ago. The featured image was recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope and is a closeup of the outer edge of a supernova remnant known as the Cygnus Loop or Veil Nebula. The filamentary shock front is moving toward the top of the frame at about 170 kilometers per second, while glowing in light emitted by atoms of excited hydrogen gas. The distances to stars thought to be interacting with the Cygnus Loop have recently been found by the Gaia mission to be about 2400 light years distant. The whole Cygnus Loop spans six full Moons across the sky, corresponding to about 130 light years, and parts can be seen with a small telescope toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus)."


Cygnus Loop - Nyhabingi Golgotta (Tribal Trance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob5QXkGCzd0

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Good Morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price......How cool is that....!!!