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Portion of the Veil nebula
author: ESA/Nasa/Hubble heritage team/Novapix
reference: a-snv11-00047
Image Size 300 DPI: 13 * 6 cm
This image shows a beautiful portion of the Veil Nebula - the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded some 5-10,000 years ago. The intertwined rope-like filaments of gas result from the enormous amounts of energy released as the fast-moving debris from the explosion ploughs into its surroundings and creates shock fronts. The image was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The colour is produced by composite of three different images. The different colours indicate emission from different kinds of atoms excited by the shock: blue shows oxygen, green shows sulphur, and red shows hydrogen.
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