Science fiction has really distorted our perception of what different features of the universe look like. It has become so easy to make false planets, galaxies and other celestial attractions, that it is easy to forget how amazing our own completely real universe is. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is always here to remind us of this, and a new snapshot of the distant Veil Nebula shows us that even the most inflated budget for special effects cannot compare to what Mother Nature painted in the cosmos.
The image, taken at a ridiculous distance of 2,100 light-years from Earth, is absolutely awesome in every possible way. The nebula you see here is the result of the death of a massive star that was estimated to be 20 times the mass of our own sun. It’s a whole bunch of material being blown into space, and this swirling mass of gases is about 10,000 years left after the star exploded in an explosion that would destroy anything in its path.
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The Veil Nebula is what is known as a supernova remnant. It just means that it’s part of what’s left after a supernova explosion, but what makes this image so interesting is that it’s actually a customized version of the same snapshot that was shown by NASA six years ago. Additional processing of Hubble’s raw data provided scientists (and fortunately the rest of us) with an even more detailed look at the waves of gas.
“To create this colorful image, observations were made using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument using five different filters. “The new post-processing methods have further improved the details of emissions of double ionized oxygen (seen here in blues), ionized hydrogen and ionized nitrogen (seen here in red),” NASA explained in a blog post. ‘The Veil Nebula is the visible part of the nearby Cygnus loop, a supernova remnant formed about 10,000 years ago by the death of a massive star. That star – which was 20 times the mass of the sun – lived fast and died young, ending its life in a cataclysmic release of energy. Despite this violent violence, the shock waves and debris of the supernova have sculpted the Veil Nebula’s fine tracery of ionized gas – creating a scene of astonishing astronomical beauty. ”
Nebulae like these may seem like a book’s end of a star’s life, but in fact they’re just another step in the life cycle of stars and planets. All of these gases will eventually melt into stiffer and stiffer clumps. Mixed with dust and other materials, it could become a whole new planetary system. It may take billions of years before that happens, but this constant recycling of material is what is happening in our universe, and it’s a wonderful thing to behold.
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Mike Wehner has been reporting on technology and video games for the past decade, discussing news and trends in VR, portable, smartphones and future technology. Mike was recently technical editor at The Daily Dot and has appeared in USA Today, Time.com and numerous other web and print outlets. His love of reporting is second only to his game addiction.