The Veil Nebula (ground-based view)

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esahubble_heic1520b September 24th, 2015

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

This image shows the Veil supernova remnant and the surrounding sky. Due to the size of the Nebula the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was able to only observe a small part of it in detail.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1520b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Cygnus Loop NGC 6960 Veil Nebula
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula > Type > Supernova Remnant
Esahubble_heic1520b_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 20h 46m 48.1s
DEC = 30° 43’ 46.6”
Orientation
North is 0.3° CW
Field of View
2.8 x 2.9 degrees
Constellation
Cygnus
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ID
heic1520b
Subject Category
B.4.1.4  
Subject Name
Cygnus Loop, NGC 6960, Veil Nebula
Credits
NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
Release Date
2015-09-24T16:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1520b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Instrument
Color Assignment
Band
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
311.700388298, 30.7295989441
Reference Dimension
9936.0, 10320.0
Reference Pixel
4968.0, 5160.0
Scale
-0.000280028937192, 0.000280028937192
Rotation
-0.26000000000000006
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
heic1520b
Metadata Date
2015-09-02T21:11:37+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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