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Candy-colored atoms shine in new image of the Veil Nebula

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The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.

It is the remnants of a star that was roughly 20 times as big as our sun and exploded about 10,000 years ago .

Hubble has previously snapped images of this nebula in 1994, 1997 , and 2015 .