# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CNQ5tNgLSmz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11733576-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-04-05T00:25:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Space in color 🎨

🎇 The fine details of the nebula’s delicate threads and filaments of ionized gas are made visible using a new processing method applied to this image of the Veil Nebula.

📸 Five different filters were used to create this colorful image, observations were taken by Wide Field Camera 3 instrument on NASAHubble. Further enhanced details of emissions from doubly ionized oxygen (blue hues), ionized hydrogen, and ionized nitrogen (red hues) were made visible with post processing methods.

🎆 Visible to amateur astronomers in the night sky, the Veil Nebula lies around 2,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus (the Swan), making it a relatively close neighbor in astronomical terms. Only a small portion of the nebula was captured in this image.

💥 From stellar violence to astronomical beauty: The Veil Nebula is the resulting remnants of a death of a massive star, that was 20 times the size of the sun. The shock waves of the cataclysmic release of energy sculpted the Veil Nebula’s delicate tracery of ionized gas.

Credit: EuropeanSpaceAgency/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay
#Nebula #Colorful #HubbleTelescope #Cosmic #FilterFun

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