The Veil Nebula
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| The Veil Nebula: Taken under Michigan skies August 5th, 2021 |
A view spanning six full-moons across the sky, the Veil Nebula is one of the many beautiful nebulous structures located in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan). Around 10,000 years ago, a dying star, roughly twenty times as massive as the Sun, exploded in its final phase of life: supernova. The wispy reds and blues are leftover remnants of the supernova explosion.
The left portion and right portion of this supernova remnant are known as the Eastern Veil and Western Veil. Somewhere between these two structures is the neutron star remains from the supernova explosion, but it is probably way to small to resolve in my image.
I made posts on the Eastern/Western veil nebula back in 2020. Since they were separate images, and did not include the space in between, they don't capture how massive the entire structure really is. Even in this image, there is some of the remnant that would not fit in the frame.
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