Spectacular flyover visualization through the Veil Nebula

A spectacular flyover 3D visualization, created from new images taken by Hubble Space Telescope, of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant from a star that exploded 8,000 years ago. Watch the flyover…

From NASA: “Not long before the dawn of recorded human history, our distant ancestors would have witnessed what appeared to be a bright new star briefly blazing in the northern sky, rivaling the glow of our moon. In fact, it was the titanic detonation of a bloated star much more massive than our sun. Now, thousands of years later, the expanding remnant of that blast can be seen as the Cygnus Loop, a donut-shaped nebula that is six times the apparent diameter of the full moon. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to zoom into a small portion of that remnant, called the Veil Nebula. Hubble resolves tangled rope-like filaments of glowing gases. They have been shocked and heated by colliding with cooler, denser interstellar gas. Supernovae enrich space with heavier elements used in the formation of future stars and planets — and possibly life.”