Captured from Rockwall, TX in July 07. According to NASA, these glowing filaments of interstellar shocked gas are part of a larger spherical supernova remnant -- expanding debris from a star which exploded over 5,000 years ago. This color digital image of a bit of the Veil reveal details in the diaphanous cosmic cloud. Seen from our perspective against a rich Milky Way star field, the Veil Nebula is now known to lie some 1,400 light-years away toward the constellation Cygnus.