Ring Nebula
Nebula
The catalogue that supplied this record classes it more precisely as a planetary nebula.
The cast-off shell of a dying star seen almost straight along its axis, so it shows as a neat ring of light.
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What it looks like
A photograph of this patch of sky, taken by a telescope on the ground. Ring Nebula sits in the middle, with the surrounding sky around it.
Brightness adjusted so faint detail shows. Every picture here is a rendering of the survey's measurements rather than a measurement itself, and this is the same setting for all of them.
- Position
- 283.39587, 33.02858Source: NASA Extragalactic Database
- Brightness
- about 8.8Source: HyperLeda
- Apparent size
- about 1.27 arcminutesSource: HEASARC plnebulae table
- Constellation
- LyraSource: OpenNGC
Catalogue designations
NGC6720, M57, IRAS 18517+3257, PN G063.1+13.9
Source: OpenNGC