File:Hubble image of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57).jpg
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DescriptionHubble image of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57).jpg |
English: This new image shows the dramatic shape and colour of the Ring Nebula, otherwise known as Messier 57.
From Earth’s perspective, the nebula looks like a simple elliptical shape with a shaggy boundary. However, new observations combining existing ground-based data with new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope data show that the nebula is shaped like a distorted doughnut. This doughnut has a rugby-ball-shaped region of lower-density material slotted into in its central “gap”, stretching towards and away from us. |
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Source | http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1310a/ |
Author | NASA, ESA, and C. Robert O’Dell (Vanderbilt University) |
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Credit/Provider | NASA, ESA, and C. Robert O’Dell (Vanderbilt University). |
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Source | ESA/Hubble |
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Date and time of data generation | 16:00, 23 May 2013 |
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http://www.spacetelescope.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany |