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  2. Veil Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. [ 4 ] It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop , [ 5 ] a supernova remnant , many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers.

  3. Cygnus Loop - Wikipedia

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    The Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103) is a large supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Cygnus, an emission nebula measuring nearly 3° across. [1] Some arcs of the loop, known collectively as the Veil Nebula or Cirrus Nebula, emit in the visible electromagnetic range. [1] Radio, infrared, and X-ray images reveal the ...

  4. List of supernova remnants - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of observed supernova remnants ... including Veil Nebula: 20 h 51 m +30° 40′ 6,000−3,000 BCE: 7: 1,470? possible neutron star 2XMM J204920.2+290106

  5. Cygnus (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    NGC 6992 (Eastern Veil Nebula – center) and NGC 6960 (Western Veil Nebula – upper right) photographed from a dark site. To the south of Epsilon Cygni is the Veil Nebula (NGC 6960, 6979, 6992, and 6995), a 5,000-year-old supernova remnant covering approximately 3 degrees of the sky - [66] it is over 50 light-years long. [4]

  6. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Cygnus Loop

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    Original – "The Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103) is a large supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Cygnus, an emission nebula measuring nearly 3° across. Some arcs of the loop, known collectively as the Veil Nebula or Cirrus Nebula, emit in visible light. Radio, infrared and X-ray images reveal the complete loop."

  7. Category:Supernova remnants - Wikipedia

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    Veil Nebula; Vela Supernova Remnant; W. W49B; Westerhout 50 This page was last edited on 13 March 2013, at 19:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  8. NGC 2736 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 2736 (also known as the Pencil Nebula) is a small part of the Vela Supernova Remnant, located near the Vela Pulsar in the constellation Vela. The nebula's linear appearance triggered its popular name. It resides about 815 light-years (250 parsecs) away from the Solar System. It is thought to be formed from part of the shock wave of the ...

  9. Vela Pulsar - Wikipedia

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    Gamma ray and optical (visible light) light curves for the pulsar, adapted from Spolon et al. (2019) [3]. Vela is the brightest pulsar (at radio frequencies) in the sky and spins 11 times per second [4] (i.e. a period of 89.33 milliseconds—the shortest known at the time of its discovery) and the remnant from the supernova explosion is estimated to be travelling outwards at 1,200 km/s (750 mi ...