File:Hubble image of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57).jpg

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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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Hubble image of Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57

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23 May 2013

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