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The Western Veil (also known as Caldwell 34), consisting of NGC 6960 (the "Witch's Broom", [10] Lacework Nebula, [8] "Filamentary Nebula" [10]) near the foreground star 52 Cygni; The Eastern Veil (also known as Caldwell 33 ), whose brightest area is NGC 6992 , trailing off farther south into NGC 6995 (together with NGC 6992 also known as ...
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NGC 6960, the Western Veil, is the western part of the remnant, also known as the "Witch's Broom", located at J2000 RA 20 h 45 m 58.1 s Dec +30° 35′ 43″. [3] As the westernmost NGC object in the nebula (first in right ascension), its number is sometimes used as an NGC identifier for the nebula as a whole.
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."
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]
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NGC 604, one of largest nebulae (H II region) is located in the Triangulum Galaxy (viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope).. Below is a list of the largest known nebulae so far discovered, ordered by actual diameter.
Flaming Star Nebula: Nebula: 1.6 Auriga: 13 C32 NGC 4631: Whale Galaxy: Barred Spiral Galaxy: 22,000 Canes Venatici: 9.3 C33 NGC 6992: East Veil Nebula: Supernova Remnant: 2.5 Cygnus: 7 C34 NGC 6960: West Veil Nebula: Supernova Remnant: 2.5 Cygnus: 7 C35 NGC 4889: Coma B: Supergiant Elliptical Galaxy: 300,000 Coma Berenices: 11.4 C36 NGC 4559 ...