Friday, November 7, 2014

APOD 2.1

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This is the Veil Nebula. It was created by an explosion of a enormous star and what you are seeing are debris clouds. From Earth, the Veil Nebula is about one half of a degree, about the same apparent size of the Moon. Its distance is about 12 light years! Thanks to the technology we have today we are bale to view the beauty of this phenomena.

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