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Video Clip SS273057 (The Veil Nebula)

Panning across the expanses of hot interstellar gas and dust, shaped by the shockwave from the explosion of a dying star.

Called the Veil Nebula, the debris is one of the best-known supernova remnants, deriving its name from its delicate, draped filamentary structures. 

The entire nebula is 110 light-years across, covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth, and resides about 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan.

This nebula is all that remain of what was once a star 20 times more massive than our sun.  Its supernova is thought to have exploded around 8,000 years ago. 

This imagery was created from Wide Field Camera 3 observations by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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The tanker overturned after trying to make a sharp turn on a national highway on the outskirts of the city of Bahawalpur.

It was driving from the southern port city of Karachi to Lahore, the Punjab provincial capital, when the driver lost control and crashed.

“People of the area and passersby had started gathering fuel when the tanker exploded, burning everybody on and around the spot,” provincial government spokesman Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khan told Reuters.

Serious burn victims, several in critical condition, were airlifted by helicopter to hospitals in Bahawalpur and nearby cities for treatment.

Witnesses said about 30 motorcycles that had carried villagers to the accident site lay in charred ruins nearby. Eight other vehicles were destroyed, they added.

“According to the initial reports, somebody tried to light a cigarette, and the spilt fuel caught fire, leading to the tanker’s explosion,” said Jam Sajjad Hussain, a spokesperson for the rescue workers service .

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