I would suppose that just about any good book on astronomy would contain a photograph of what might best be described as the "smoke ring" of the sky. Others might call it a doughnut or a cosmic bagel, ...

The glorious, billowing Southern Ring Nebula is the cocoon of a dying star — and it has a secret. Scientists have found this nebula to exhibit a double-ring structure that evidences not one, but ...

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 and ...

Gone are the days when the Ring Nebula looked sort of like a bagel, or a jelly doughnut, a massive astronomical blob holding the secrets of a dying star. The new images of the famous Ring Nebula from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped its first image of the Ring Nebula, one of the most famous celestial sights in the night sky—and it’s visible right now in summer skies. Also known as M57, ...

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