Nebula 078 / 100
Veil Nebula
NGC6960
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At a glance
- Type
- Supernova remnant
- Constellation
- Cyg
- Right ascension
- 20h 45m 58.1s
- Declination
- +30° 36′
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.0
- Angular size
- 210x160′
- Catalogue
- NGC6960
Located in Cygnus.
The outline on your card
Long, delicate arcs of the Cygnus Loop mark the expanding shell of an ancient supernova.
- Outline class
- Filament
- Axis ratio
- 0.76 : 1
- Central source
- No central source
- Surface brightness
- High
- Recorded structure
- Filaments · Bright rim · Knots
The card front carries no text by design: the glyph is drawn from this object's own silhouette, so the outline is the only clue you get until you scan it.
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