Veil nebula

NGC 6960 is sometimes known as the Veil Nebula, sometimes as the Witches Broom, and sometimes as the Cirrus Nebula. This region is part of the Cygnus Loop

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

The essential guide to astronomy

Advanced processing techniques brought out finer details of the nebula’s filaments and delicate threads of translucent ionized gas

Veil nebula.

Stars Wallpaper For Iphone - Best Wallpaper HD

“📷 The Eastern Veil Nebula NGC 6960 Credit: Jimmy Walker https://t.co/kOwoIrspSa”

A six panel mosaic of the Veil in bi-colour with RGB stars. Approximately 15 hours per panel (30 minute NB subs) processed in PixInsight. Scope was a Takahashi FSQ-106ED and camera a QSI683, Imaged from a shared scope at SRO in California.

This HD wallpaper is about red and blue galaxy, a supernova in the constellation Cygnus, Original wallpaper dimensions is 7144x2933px, file size is 3.08MB