The Veil Nebula, NGC 6960.
noirlab_noao-02186 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
The north central portion of the Veil Nebula in the constellation Cygnus, as seen by the Kitt Peak 4-meter Mayall telescope in 1973. This large loop of gas was ejected about 30 to 40 thousand years ago from a supernova. It is also known as the Cygnus Loop. North is to the right.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02186/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- ID
- noao-02186
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 6960, Veil Nebula
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:12
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02186/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 312.1110461, 31.48962718
- Reference Dimension
- 2979.0, 2380.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1324.610123, 1241.625885
- Scale
- -0.000259, 0.00026
- Rotation
- -91.20798869
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-02186
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-02186.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:36.257795
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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