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Compression Jpeg Compression Caption The Veil Nebula or Cirrus Nebula is the visible part of the Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103), which is a large supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Cygnus. It is an emission nebula measuring nearly 3° across. Radio, infrared, and X-ray images reveal the complete loop. This stack of 133 one-minute exposures was taken with my QHY268C on my AT60ED with 0.8x focal reducer and processed in PixInsight.