Lifting the veil

Lifting the veil

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, Hubble has once again lifted the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. This nebula is the remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10 000 years ago. Situ...

By ASHESH DAS RUP

Location: Veil Nebula, Cygnus Constellation

Tags: Hubble, Space, Cygnus, Universe, Nebulae, ESA