This delicate veil of light is a small section of the blast wave from a long-ago supernova. Located about 2,400 light years away in the Northern Cross, the ripple marks the outer edge of the remaining ...

Supernova remnants, like the Veil Nebula, are formed from the ejected gases of massive stars after supernova explosions. The Veil Nebula, located approximately 1410-2100 light-years from Earth, is a ...

When stars blow up they make beautiful messes. One of the most stunning happened about 10,000 years ago and created the Veil Nebula in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. The Veil lies about 2,100 ...

Dimitris K is part of a burgeoning group of astrophotographers posting stunning shots of their backyard space photography on Flickr. He uses an unmodded Canon camera attached to a high-powered ...

Hubble revisited the Veil Nebula for a more detailed look at its colorful hot gases. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay About 2,000 light years from Earth are the brilliant remnants of the explosive ...

Last week, my photo featured just a portion of the Veil Nebula, the Eastern Veil Nebula. The whole supernova remnant, the remains of a stellar explosion of a star 20 times the size of our sun, is ...

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 about ...