The Veil Nebula, located about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, is the visible portion of that larger ...

The Veil Nebula is a prototypical middle-aged supernova remnant, and is an ideal laboratory for studying the physics of supernova remnants: it is fairly nearby, has a large angular size and has a ...

Discover breathtaking nebula photos from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing colorful clouds and the wonders of space., ...

Hubble has imaged the Veil Nebula before, most recently in 2015, but this newer image zooms in on a smaller area of the nebula to show it in detail. Its colors also represent different elements ...

This Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured in a previous Hubble photo release, but now new processing techniques have been ...

What a dreamy image! Otherworldly yet familiar like a twisted ribbon. You’re looking at a snippet of the Veil Nebula, a vast bubble of expanding gases from a supernova explosion that occurred ...

According to the ESA's website listing for the image the Veil Nebula was a star that was approximately 20 times the size of our Sun that sadly came to the end of its life about 10,000 years ago.

Between 1,410 and 2,100 light-years away (sources disagree), the Veil Nebula and associated Cygnus Loop form one of the closest supernova remnants to the Sun.

The Orion Nebula's bluish gas shell appears to be leaking dust and gas from a protrusion discovered by NASA's flying telescope SOFIA.

The Veil Nebula is the visible portion of the nearby Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant formed roughly 10 000 years ago by the death of a massive star.