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Ring Nebula. M 57, [1] NGC 6720, [1] GC 4447. The Ring Nebula (also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 and NGC 6720) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra. [4] [. C] Such a nebula is formed when a star, during the last stages of its evolution before becoming a white dwarf, expels a vast luminous envelope of ionized gas into the ...
English: HaRGB image of The Ring Nebula (M57) showing the faint outer shells. Data from the Liverpool Telescope (a 2 m RC telescope on La Palma) processed by Göran Nilsson. 67 exposures totalling 1.9 hours
English: Ring Nebula (M57), taken with eVscope eQuinox from Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, France. 10' pose. Français : Nébuleuse de la Lyre (M57), prise avec eVscope eQuinox depuis Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, France.
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed colorful new portraits of the iconic Ring Nebula. The new images capture the complex details of the planetary nebula, an enormous cloud of cosmic gas ...
Messier object. The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles ( Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters ). Because Messier was interested only in finding comets, he created a list of those non-comet objects that frustrated his ...
Image Name Messier Catalogue NGC Other designation Date ... Ring Nebula: M57: NGC 6720: 1779 2.3 +1.5 −0.7: 9 Lyra: Eskimo Nebula or Clown-faced Nebula NGC 2392:
Dumbbell Nebula. known for a white dwarf. The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as the Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, and NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula (nebulosity surrounding a white dwarf) in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1360 light-years. [1] It was the first such nebula to be discovered, by Charles Messier in 1764.
In 1991, Newton became the first amateur astrophotographer to make full color CCD images of celestial objects using a Santa Barbara Instruments Group ST-4 camera, making a full color CCD image of M57, the "Ring Nebula" and M27, the "Dumbbell Nebula".