June 12, 2004 A. complex network of glowing filaments, the Veil Nebula has long been a favorite of both amateur and professional astronomers.. Part of a much larger nebula known as the Cygnus Loop ...

Since then, astronomers have named and cataloged the other scattered pieces that make up this single large remnant. The Eastern Veil is NGC 6992 and NGC 6995, with an extension designated IC 1340.

COLUMBIA, Md. , July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy discovered that Orion's Veil—an expanding shell consisting of dust and gas in front of the ...

Astronomers now believe that they have penetrated the veil of clouds enveloping that mysterious lady Venus. In the Astrophysical Journal, a pair of planet watchers using the equipment at ...

But there is another veil that interests astronomers, one that was drawn over the universe over 12 billion years ago. This particular veil was all-encompassing, ...

October 12, 2007 Astronomers get their hands dirty as they lift the veil on galactic dust ...

The Veil Nebula checks all of those boxes and more. Found approximately 2,000 light-years from Earth toward the Cygnus constellation, astronomers estimate that the star, ...

Deriving its name from its delicate, draped filamentary structures, the beautiful Veil Nebula is one of the best-known supernova remnants. It formed from the violent death of a star twenty times ...

Astronomers have reported the first detections of diffuse hydrogen wafting about in a vast halo ... The Galaxy’s veil of excited hydrogen. Nature Astronomy, 2017; 1: 0103 DOI: 10.1038/s41550 ...