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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Rings Around the Ring Nebula
NASA ^
| 28 Apr, 2024
| Image Credit: Hubble, Large Binocular Telescope, Subaru Telescope; Composition & Copyright: Robert G
Posted on 04/28/2024 11:43:34 AM 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 and become a white dwarf star. The Ring Nebula is about 2,500 light-years away toward the musical constellation Lyra.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
04/28/2024 11:43:57 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list
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posted on
04/28/2024 11:44:38 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Surely a constellation cannot be musical.
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posted on
04/28/2024 11:46:09 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Depends on the constellation. And if you call me Shirley one more time...
To: MtnClimber
Now...if only there was a nice platinum ring setting for that...
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posted on
04/28/2024 11:55:32 AM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: MtnClimber
Kinda looks like a phenomenon causing an Earth like planet forming.
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posted on
04/28/2024 12:04:17 PM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
To: MtnClimber
And I thought the FAB-4000’s created big explosions...
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posted on
04/28/2024 12:15:26 PM PDT
by
BobL
(A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
To: MtnClimber
Good thing this thread isn’t about rings around the 8th planet.
To: Disambiguator
Whoops, typo! 7th planet.
To: MtnClimber
Anemone Hollandia Red and Blue Flower
To: Deaf and Discerning
It’s a ghostly smoke ring in my telescope eyepiece.
A beautiful cosmic flower thanks to very large optics.
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posted on
04/28/2024 3:08:07 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: MtnClimber
Many years ago when I got my refactor scope the Ring Nebula was the first distant object I found. Looked like an off white color string of pearls.
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posted on
04/28/2024 5:02:07 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
To: telescope115
What scope and magnification are you using now days and what would that set me back?
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posted on
04/29/2024 3:39:22 AM PDT
by
MikelTackNailer
(We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
To: MikelTackNailer
The sky is quite literally the limit as to how much you can spend on this hobby.
See my PM…
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posted on
04/29/2024 7:11:50 AM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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