Hubble image archive
Cygnus Loop and Location of Veil Nebula
[Left] – This is a sky survey image of the Veil Nebula, a 110-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star that exploded about 8,000 years ago in the constellation Cygnus.[Center] – This is a ground-based telescope image of a 15-light-year-long stretch of the eastern portion of th...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2015
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2015-29-3621-image
[Left] – This is a sky survey image of the Veil Nebula, a 110-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star that exploded about 8,000 years ago in the constellation Cygnus.
[Center] – This is a ground-based telescope image of a 15-light-year-long stretch of the eastern portion of the nebula.
[Right] – This image shows a two-light-year-wide segment of the remnant as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble resolves tangled rope-like filaments of glowing gases.
Credits
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Digitized Sky Survey ((DSS) STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO), and T.A. Rector (University of Alaska, Anchorage) and WIYN/NOAO/AURA/NSFImage Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Veil Nebula, NGC 6960, Cygnus Loop |
| Object Description | Supernova Remnant |
| R.A. Position | 20h 45m 0.0s |
| Dec. Position | 30° 57' 59.99" |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Distance | 2,100 light-years (640 parsecs) |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The Hubble image of the Veil Nebula was created from Hubble data from proposals : Hubble Heritage Team, PI: Z. Levay, M. Mutchler, J. Mack, S. Meyett, L. Frattare, C. Christian, J. Green, and M. Livio (STScI/AURA), and K. Noll (NASA/GSFC). |
| Instrument | Dss (left), NOAO (center), and HST>WFC3/UVIS (right) |
| Exposure Dates | April 14 - 17, 2015 (HST) |
| Filters | Hubble image (right): F502N ([O III]), F657N (H-alpha+[N II]), F673N ([S II]), F555W (V), and F814W (I) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | The Hubble image (right) is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3/UVIS instrument. Several filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: F502N ([O III]) Red: F657N (H-alpha+[N II]) Green: F673N ([S II]) Blue: F555W (V) Red: F814W (I) |
More Images From This Period
Downloads
Source
Image and source material are credited to the official mission archive linked below.
View on NASA.gov