To locate the Ring Nebula, Rao advises facing due east around 10 p.m. local daylight time. You'll find the ring lying about halfway between the two 3rd-magnitude stars Sheliak and Sulafat, which ...

The Ring Nebula’s vibrant colors are shown in a whole new light with JWST’s NIRcam. “We are amazed by the details in the images, better than we have ever seen before.

The Ring Nebula is easily seen on a clear evening with binoculars or — if you want to see its ringlike structure — a telescope. Up Next Previous. Next. Solar System, Stars.

You can see the Ring Nebula for yourself. The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, is more than 2,000 light years away, in the Lyra constellation.Discovered in 1779 by a French astronomer, it ...

New images of the famous Ring Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are mesmerizing, with glowing rings of gas and wispy trails emanating from the core. We can see it more clarity than ...

Thanks to the James Webb telescope, we can now see the nebula with more clarity. As one expert says, "We always knew planetary nebulae were pretty. What we see now is spectacular." ...

Head outside this week at around 10 p.m. local daylight time and face due east and locate the Ring Nebula for a summertime skywatching treat.

Gone are the days when the Ring Nebula looked sort of like a bagel, or a jelly doughnut, a massive astronomical blob holding the secrets of a dying star.

The Ring Nebula, initially identified by Messier and astronomer Darquier de Pellepoix in 1779, emerged from a dying star, a white dwarf, shedding its outer layers into space, ...

The nebula was ejected only about 4,000 years ago, researchers say. "The James Webb Space Telescope has provided us with an extraordinary view of the Ring Nebula that we’ve never seen before ...

The Ring Nebula resides about 2,000 light-years from Earth and stretches about 1 light-year across. For years, astronomers believed it was cylindrical, with its long axis aimed toward Earth.