File:Cygnus Loop Labeled.png

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Cygnus_Loop_Labeled.png (420 × 420 pixels, file size: 363 KB, MIME type: image/png)

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English: Recent NASA photograph of the Cygnus Loop in ultraviolet light, with labels added to point out well known features:
  • The Western Veil (NGC 6960)
  • The Eastern Veil (NGC 6992, NGC 6995, IC 1340)
  • NGC 6974 and NGC 6979 along the northern edge
  • Pickering's Triangle
  • The Southestern Knot, a prominent X-ray feature
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Author Elphion

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Veil Nebula

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25 November 2012

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