Veil Nebula [SEP] constellation
Veil Nebula
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.
It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, which exploded around 8,000 years ago. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area
Cirrus Nebula or the Filamentary Nebula. Several components have separate names and identifiers, including the "Western Veil" or "Witch's Broom", the "Eastern Veil", and Pickering's Triangle.
Visual components: the Veil Nebula NGC 6960.
NGC 6960, the "Western Veil", is the western part of the remnant, also known as the "Witch's Broom", located at J2000 RA Dec . As the western-most NGC object in the nebula (first in right ascension), its