Mike Joner and David Laney of Brigham Young University’s West Mountain Observatory, brings you these stunning images of “ghostly shell of gases from a massive star that blew up thousands of years ago“. Astronomers/Scientists call this phenomenon the Nebula.

“The Veil Nebula is 2000 light years away and 100 light years across and gets its colors from the expanding shockwave that resulted from the violent death of a vanished star.”

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