One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 light-years from Earth. Its striking, smoke-ring-like appearance has both ...

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

JWST/NIRcam composite image of the Ring Nebula. The images clearly show the main ring, surrounded by a faint halo and with many delicate structures. The interior of the ring is filled with hot gas.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. The images, released today by an international team of astronomers ...

A 4-inch scope at 150x will show the cluster’s 30 brightest ... It’s a combination object that pairs open cluster NGC 2467 with emission nebula Sharpless 2–311. The magnitude 7.1 cluster ...