NGC 6995 The Bat Nebula (The Eastern Veil Nebula) - telescope processed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. NGC 6995 is the Bat Nebula, an arc-shaped segment of the Eastern Veil Nebula, which is an expansive part of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant.

NGC 6995 The Bat Nebula (The Eastern Veil Nebula) - unprocessed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. This supernova remnant is expanding at a breakneck speed of about 1.5 million km/h (almost a million mph). It's fast enough to visibly expand over a human lifetime.

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