Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Ancient Supernova

By |2025-06-02T09:09:07-04:00June 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,000 years ago that star exploded in a supernova, leaving the Veil Nebula. At the time, the expanding cloud was likely as bright as a crescent Moon, remaining visible for weeks to people living at the [...]