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Apollo 17 Site: A Sharper View
8.09.2011
NGC 6992: A Glimpse of the Veil
28.09.2001
8.09.2011
This view of the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow valley was captured last month by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the sharpest ever recorded from space. The high resolution image data...
NGC 6992: A Glimpse of the Veil
28.09.2001
After 5,000 years, the gorgeous Veil Nebula is still turning heads. Cataloged as NGC 6992, these glowing filaments of interstellar shocked gas are part of a larger spherical supernova remnant known as the Cygnus Loop or the Veil Nebula -- expanding debris from a star which exploded over 5,000 years ago.
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