Posted on 08/18/2021 4:18:32 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure - a collaborative effort combining data from three different large telescopes - explores the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much farther from the nebula's central star. This composite image includes red light emitted by hydrogen as well as visible and infrared light. The Ring Nebula is an elongated planetary nebula, a type of nebula created when a Sun-like star evolves to throw off its outer atmosphere to become a white dwarf star. The Ring Nebula is about 2,500 light-years away toward the musical constellation Lyra.
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bttt
There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth!
I’ll be humming “The Eye of the Tiger” the rest of the night.
It looks like Earth plowed into a large puddle of space mud.
One of the first objects I ever located with my telescope. The constellation Lyra is also home to “The Double Double’’, two sets of stars a half a light year apart from each other.
Oh noes.... it Sauron.
Beautiful, the nebula appears to be a Rose, in all her glory! A boutonniere from outer space! The symmetry is
not surprising.
Thanks again!
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