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Cygnus Loop, or Veil Nebula, 60 two-minute exposures taken on August 16, 2020. A three-degree-wide (6 full moons wide) spherical expanding bubble of glowing gas from a star that exploded as a supernova about 21 thousand years ago. About 130 light-years in diameter, at a distance of about 2000 light-years.

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Uploaded on August 28, 2020
Taken on August 16, 2020