Positive Quote - Veil Nebula Astronomy Paperweight

A gorgeous astronomy paperweight featuring the Veil Nebula, taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. It has room for your own inspirational positive quote (or you can remove the quote text, if you like). The Veil Nebula lies around 2100 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan), making it a relatively close neighbour in astronomical terms. Only a small portion of the nebula was captured in this image. The Veil Nebula is the visible portion of the nearby Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant formed roughly 10 000 years ago by the death of a massive star. The Veil Nebula’s progenitor star — which was 20 times the mass of the Sun — lived fast and died young, ending its life in a cataclysmic release of energy. Despite this stellar violence, the shockwaves and debris from the supernova sculpted the Veil Nebula’s delicate tracery of ionised gas — creating a scene of surprising astronomical beauty. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay