This picture is a very spooky picture of a portion of the Veil Nebula. This nebula is made up of the remnants of a supernova (star explosion). The entire constellation takes up 3 degrees of the night sky in the constellation Cygnus. The part that we are looking only takes up about the size of the moon. The Veil Nebula is about 12 light years away from earth. The picture is colored so that hydrgen atoms give are shown in red while oxygen is showed in blue hues.
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