More chaos overhead – Veil Nebula


Veil is a supernova remnant – a star, 20 times larger than our sun, exploded. Went boom about 10-20,000 years ago. The structure is so large that six moons can fit in. There are a number of named substructures within it – the Eastern Veil (the bat nebula), the Western veil (the witch’s broom) and the Pickering’s Triangle. My mom thought it looked like an open mouth. I could imagine an angler fish with its antennae (bat nebula) and a large mouth (the central veil).
[…] with swan heart (Sadr), and then it had moved on to swan’s leg (North America), its wing (Veil) and now its throat, Crescent. Sadr was the first nebula with our narrow band filters simply […]
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