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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. IC 5146 - Wikipedia

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   IC 5146 (also Caldwell 19, Sh 2-125, Barnard 168, and the Cocoon Nebula) is a reflection [2] /emission [3] nebula and Caldwell object in the constellation Cygnus. The NGC description refers to IC 5146 as a cluster of 9.5 mag stars involved in a bright and dark nebula.

5. Sh 2-101 - Wikipedia

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   The companion star of the black hole Cygnus X-1 is the brighter of the two stars near the middle of the photo. Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) Sharpless 101 (Sh 2-101) is a H II region [1] emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus.

6. 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]

7. List of largest nebulae - Wikipedia

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   Enormous Lyα nebula (ELAN) Four quasars embedded in the nebula. Likely progenitor of a massive galaxy cluster at z=2.05. Fabulous Nebula [13] 969,000 ly (297,000 pc) [14] Enormous Lyα nebula (ELAN) Also called SDSS J1020+1040 nebula, after the central quasar (aka 4C 10.29), located at z=3.164. Inspiraling material. [14]

8. File:Veil Nebula by Hubble 2007, segment 2.jpg - Wikipedia

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9. Cygnus OB2 - Wikipedia

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   Short narrated video about Cygnus OB2 #9. Cygnus OB2 is an OB association that is home to some of the most massive and most luminous stars known, including suspected Luminous blue variable Cyg OB2 #12.