... While the Veil is roughly circular in shape covering nearly 3 degrees on the sky in the constellation Cygnus, this portion of the eastern Veil spans only 1/2 degree, about the apparent size of the Moon . ...
... Discovered using data from the prolific planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft , the distant world orbits its parent star, a cool, dim, M dwarf star about half the size and mass of the Sun, some 500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. ...
... While the Veil is roughly circular in shape and covers nearly 3 degrees on the sky in the constellation Cygnus, this portion of the eastern Veil spans only 1/2 degree, about the apparent size of the Moon . ...
... But in this sharp optical telescopic view, the irregular outlines of LDN 988 and friends look like dancing stick figures eclipsing the rich starfields of the constellation Cygnus. ...
... The Veil supernova remnant's has a very large angular size - six times the diameter of the full moon - and different parts of it are known as the " Cygnus Loop " and catalog numbers NGC 6960, NGC 6979, NGC 6992, and NGC 6995. ...
... The galactic center itself, along with the famous black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 (near the plane, halfway from the center to the left edge) are also seen as bright sources. ...