Hubble Captures Image Of Beautiful Cosmic Veil Left Behind By Star's Violent Death
Source: Tech Times
Hubble Captures Image Of Beautiful Cosmic Veil Left Behind By Star's Violent Death
By Jim Algar, Tech Times | September 26, 8:11 AM
The violent death of a star, which may have been visible to our ancestors 8,000 years ago as a bright but short-lived new point of light in the sky, left behind a beautiful cosmic object captured in dramatic new images by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The space telescope first photographed the supernova remnant known as the Veil Nebula, a twisting, multi-colored halo of gas 2,100 light-years from earth still expanding from the original massive explosion 18 years ago.
The new images of the nebula, located in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan), were created by overlaying images captured in 1997 by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) with more images from the space telescope's new Wide Field Camera (WF3C).
The expanding wave of gas emitted by the supernova is now 110 light-years across, producing light as it crashes at almost a million miles per hour into cooler, denser interstellar gas, NASA says.
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