Posted on Apr 5, 2021

APOD: 2021 April 5 - Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Exploded Star

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Wisps of an Exploded Star." Our friend SP5 Jim Curry bought this image to my attention a few days ago (many thanks, Jim), and I suspected it would be a featured APOD before long. Both the colors and the resolution are amazing. The Veil Nebula is located some 2,100 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. Only a small portion was captured in this image. It was produced by passing observations taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 through 5 different filters. These new post-processing methods enhanced the details of emissions from doubly ionized oxygen (seen here in blues), ionized hydrogen, and ionized nitrogen (seen here in reds). The Veil Nebula is the visible portion of a supernova remnant formed roughly 10 000 years ago by the death of a star 20 times larger than our Sun.

APOD: 2021 April 5 - Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Exploded Star

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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Wisps of an Exploded Star."

Image: Veil Nebula - Wisps of an Exploded Star - Image Credit - ESA_ Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay

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"Explanation: Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,000 years ago that star exploded in a supernova leaving the Veil Nebula. At the time, the expanding cloud was likely as bright as a crescent Moon, remaining visible for weeks to people living at the dawn of recorded history. Today, the resulting supernova remnant, also known as the Cygnus Loop, has faded and is now visible only through a small telescope directed toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus). The remaining Veil Nebula is physically huge, however, and even though it lies about 1,400 light-years distant, it covers over five times the size of the full Moon. The featured picture is a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of six images together covering a span of only about two light years, a small part of the expansive supernova remnant. In images of the complete Veil Nebula, even studious readers might not be able to identify the featured filaments."

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