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M57 in Lyra
September 3, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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The Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope.
November 27, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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The Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope.
November 30, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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The Ring Nebula (M57)
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. Image Credit: Hubble, Large Binocular Telescope, Subaru Telescope; Composition & Copyright: Robert Gendler
November 19, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Just amazing.

Ring Nebula (M57)

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May 18, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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This fantastic image features the Ring Nebula (M57), a planetary nebula, that is the glowing remains of a sun-like star appearing as a giant cosmic flower.

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Approximately 2,500 ly away toward the constellation Lyra, M57 is illuminated by
This image shows the Ring Nebula (M57), a planetary nebula, that is the glowing remains of a sun-like star appearing as a giant cosmic flower in shades of red predominantly. In the image, the amazing outer material surrounding the ring was ejected from the star during the early stages of nebula formation, the beginning of the end of its glorious existence.
February 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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M57 — The Ring Nebula

Almost 30 hours of LRGB + SHO data with the Celestron EdgeHD 8". I experimented quite a bit with blending the broadband and narrowband data and playing with the colours. A little funky, but I like where it ended up!

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September 25, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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The Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope
November 30, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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May 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Ring Nebula | M57" by Tom Williams
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Ring Nebula | M57
July 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The Ring Nebula (M57). 7 October 2024. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography
The green of the ring nebula at centre. Numerous colourful star dots around it.
October 7, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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M57 Ring nebula [by corpsmoderne]

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July 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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M57 the ring nebula from my backyard
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June 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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💍 The Ring Nebula #stars M57
May 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I forget how tiny the Ring Nebula (M57) is. It's been a few years since I've imaged this. This is with an 8" aperture, 2032mm focal length scope.

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Screenshot of M57, the Ring Nebula.
April 29, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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M57 Ring Nebula
Another planetary nebula, about twice the distance from us compared to the Dumbbell Nebula. 🔭 #astrophotography #M57
M57 Ring Nebula Unistellar Odyssey 📷 30 minutes integration time
August 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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M57: The Ring Nebula from Hubble.🔭

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Judy Schmidt
Picture of the Ring Nebula.
February 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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M57 con NIKON D70 - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2x8CoB
M57, nebulosa planetaria de la Lyra. Fijaros en que se adivina la enana blanca central y se aprecia el color rojizo externo de la nebulosa. Sólo es la suma de 3 imágenes de 30 segundos. A foco primario del 10", con Photoshop. Imagen tomada el 5 de junio de 2004 con cámara NIKON D70 acoplada a MEADE 10".
April 26, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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M57, The Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula located about 2600 ly away in the constellation of Lyra.

Kinematic studies of M57 suggest that it is barrel shaped. It appears as a ring to us because we are looking down the barrel. #astronomy
April 20, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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🔭 A Tale of Two Nebulae

Image Credit & Copyright: Kent Biggs

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This colorful telescopic view towards the musical northern constellation Lyra reveals the faint outer halos and brighter central ring-shaped region of M57, popularly known as the Ring Nebula. To modern astronomers M57 is a well-known planetary nebula. With a central ring about one light-year across, M57 is definitely not a planet though, but the gaseous shroud of one of the Milky Way's dying sun-like stars. Roughly the same apparent size as M57, the fainter and more often overlooked barred spiral galaxy at the left is IC 1296. In fact, over 100 years ago IC 1296 would have been known as a spiral nebula. By chance the pair are in the same field of view, and while they appear to have similar sizes they are actually very far apart. At a distance of a mere 2,000 light-years M57 is well within our own Milky Way galaxy. Extragalactic IC 1296 (aka PGC62532) is more like 200,000,000 light-years distant. That's about 100,000 times farther away than M57 but since they appear roughly similar in size, former spiral nebula IC 1296 must also be about 100,000 times larger than planetary nebula M57. Look closely at the sharp 21st century astroimage to spot even more distant background galaxies scattered through the frame.
August 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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