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Picture Of The Day, Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, Tantalising Veil, Cygnus Loop, Supernova Explosion

This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the Cygnus Loop. Covering a region on the sky six times the diameter of the full Moon, the Cygnus Loop is actually the expanding blastwave from a stellar cataclysm – a supernova explosion – which occurred about 15,000 years ago.

A Tantalising Veil. Credit: ESA & Digitized Sky Survey (Caltech)

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