Vibrant Gaseous Ribbons: The Veil Supernova Remnant

This 3-D visualization flies across a small portion of the Veil Nebula as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. This region is a small part of a huge expanding remnant from a star that exploded many thousands of years ago. Hubble resolves tangled rope-like filaments of glowing gases. They have been shocked and heated by colliding with cooler, denser interstellar gas. The 3-D model has been created for illustrative purposes and shows that the giant bubble of gas has a thin, rippled surface. It also h