Hubble’s picture of the swan ring is of course stunning. – haveeruonline

If you’re a Star Trek fan, you might think the image above depicts the movie’s “Nexus”. Star Trek: Generation. In the film, the Nexus was a ribbon-like hyperdimensional realm that existed outside of ordinary space and time.
But this is actually a venerable Hubble Space Telescope, Of Cygnus Loop. Taken from space, this stunning photo shows only a fraction of the remaining blast waves from the supernova that occurred at our vantage point in the northern constellation Cygnus.
The first supernova …

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