This is the most detailed image ever taken of Pickering's Triangle (NGC 6979) in the Veil Nebula supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus.
This was my first astrophoto of the autumn season of 2015. It took me over a year to complete it. NASA featured it as its Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) on 2015.09.17 — https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150917.html.
I remain utterly fascinated with the mesmerizing beauty of complex gas filaments in this part of the Veil Nebula. To me, this photograph is marvelously beautiful in spite of the fact that it really is full of extremely violent cosmic energy. This is a gloriously beautiful beast.
NASA's APOD professional astronomer explained it as follows:
"Chaotic in appearance, these filaments of shocked, glowing gas break across planet Earth's sky toward the constellation of Cygnus, as part of the Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the original supernova explosion likely reached Earth over 5,000 years ago. Blasted out in the cataclysmic event, the interstellar shock waves plow through space sweeping up and exciting interstellar material. The glowing filaments are really more like long ripples in a sheet seen almost edge on, remarkably well separated into the glow of ionized hydrogen and sulfur atoms shown in red and green, and oxygen in blue hues. Identified as Pickering's Triangle for a director of Harvard College Observatory and cataloged as NGC 6979."
Uniqueness — This is the only NFT I will ever mint of this original NASA APOD image of Pickering's Triangle. I am minting two more NFT artworks derived from this original image.
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