https://hgastro.github.io/tags/ngc6995/Recent content in Ngc6995 on Suburban Backyard Astro SightsHugo -- gohugo.ioenhgastroblog@gmail.comhgastroblog@gmail.comAll images and content on this website © 2025 Howard GramsFri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://hgastro.github.io/posts/2021-12-31-veil-nebula---the-big-picture/Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000hgastroblog@gmail.comhttps://hgastro.github.io/posts/2021-12-31-veil-nebula---the-big-picture/<p>The entire Veil Nebula (also known as the Cygnus Loop) is BIG - it covers over five times the size of the full Moon. My previous three posts were recent images of the three brightest parts of the complex. Here I have mosaicked together five separate older images so you can see the individual parts in relation to each other.</p>https://hgastro.github.io/posts/2021-11-01-eastern-veil-nebula/Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000hgastroblog@gmail.comhttps://hgastro.github.io/posts/2021-11-01-eastern-veil-nebula/<p>The Veil Nebula is a portion of the wispy wreckage of a supernova that exploded some eight thousand years ago. Here we see the eastern portion.</p>