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The paparazzi just can’t stay away from this famous star remnant 📸⁣ ⁣ NASAHubble recently released this colorful image of part of the Veil Nebula, which highlights emissions from hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms by combining images taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.⁣ ⁣ The Veil Nebula is a pretty popular subject for study: Hubble took images of this photogenic nebula in 1994, 1997, and 2015. Each image of the Veil Nebula only captures a single moment in time, but returning to photograph it again and again lets us study and understand how the supernova remnant evolves over decades. Combining this snapshot with Hubble observations from 1994 will reveal the motion of individual knots and filaments of gas over that span of time, enhancing our understanding of this stunning nebula.⁣ ⁣ Image description: A colorful, glowing nebula in shades of blue, red, and yellow reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy a...

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