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  2. Veil Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. [ 4 ] It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop , [ 5 ] a supernova remnant , many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers.

  3. Cygnus Loop - Wikipedia

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    The Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103) is a large supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Cygnus, an emission nebula measuring nearly 3° across. [1] Some arcs of the loop, known collectively as the Veil Nebula or Cirrus Nebula, emit in the visible electromagnetic range. [1] Radio, infrared, and X-ray images reveal the ...

  4. WR 134 - Wikipedia

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    WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star.

  5. List of largest nebulae - Wikipedia

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    Veil Nebula: 100–130 ly (31–40 pc) [61] Supernova remnant: Located in the Cygnus Loop: NGC 3576: 100 ly (31 pc) [62] Emission nebula: N41: 100 ly (31 pc) [63] Emission nebula: The following well-known nebulae are listed for the purpose of comparison. Orion Nebula: 20 ly (6.132 pc) [64] Diffuse Nebula: The closest major star formation region ...

  6. WR 135 - Wikipedia

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    WR 135 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star. It is just over four times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature of 63,000 K it is 250,000 times as luminous as the sun.

  7. PSR J1856+0245 - Wikipedia

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    PSR J1856+0245 is a pulsar 9 kpc (29 kly) away from Earth. It shows similar properties to the Vela Pulsar . PSR J1856+0245 is believed to be associated with HESS J1857+026 , a pulsar wind nebula located in the same region of space.

  8. 52 Cygni - Wikipedia

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    52 Cygni with NGC 6960, part of the Veil Nebula. 52 Cygni is a giant star in the northern constellation of Cygnus with an apparent magnitude of 4.22. Based on its Hipparcos parallax, it is about 291 light-years (89 pc) away.

  9. WR 140 - Wikipedia

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    The cast-off materials are essentially extremely large injections of cosmic dust into the star's stellar wind, which then carries it away from the star at several hundred kilometers per second. It is not well understood whether the unusual concentricity of WR 140's dust is due to interactions between the two stellar winds or is the result of ...