These beautiful, shimmering curls of plasma are all that remained of an ancient huge star that went out about 8000 years ago and exploded like a supernova. These enlarged photographs of one of the Voile Nebula areas were recently released by the Hubble telescope and reveal the enchanting beauty that remained after one of the most violent events in the universe.
The Veil Nebula is one of the most famous remnants of the supernova in space, which shows huge arrays of thin structures of hot plasma about 110 light-years across. The nebula is located about 2100 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus .
Vastly as possible, this new observation includes 6 images stitched together like a mosaic and covering only 2 light years, providing a very detailed look at the internal details of this fascinating object.
The brightest components come from an ancient shock wave from a supernova explosion that moves in interstellar space, striking the edges of a cavity or a so-called bubble, and leaving an indelible mark in the interstellar gas. When viewed from one of the edges, the crumpled structure of the leading edge of a “bubble” glows in the range of bright colors heated by the interaction of shock waves and a gas cavity. These colors represent the overheated luminescence of the most diverse gases that make up the shell of a “bubble” - hydrogen glows red; green - sulfur; blue - oxygen. Less visible and more diffuse luminescence emit cooler gases, which were heated during the travel of the shock wave in the past.
Besides the fact that these photographs are aesthetically pleasing, observations of the Nebulae have great scientific value. For the first time, the Hubble images were taken in 1997. Now astronomers compare with those made at present to track changes over the past few decades and possibly bring some short-term dynamics of nebula formation as a result of such a cataclysm as a universal explosion.
