Called a planetary nebula, the Ring Nebula is the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The object is tilted toward Earth so that astronomers see the ring face-on. The Hubble observations reveal ...

Explore the cosmos like never before with NASA James Webb’s breathtaking nebula images. Get ready to be mesmerized!

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 ...

These images of Jupiter, Io, and Europa were taken on 2004 April 5 using a Creative WebCam NX. This image of M57, the Ring Nebula, was taken on 2003 October 2 with our SBIG ST-7 CCD camera and special ...

a network of radio dishes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii — to gather high-resolution images of the Ring Nebula. Specifically, they mapped movements of carbon monoxide gas molecules that outline the ...

In the new images, the rings turned out to be very bright with respect to the inner shell of the nebula. Furthermore, the ...

To see that, look no further than the latest images from the James Webb ... examine the turbulent nature of this nebula." Ressler had noticed the rings around NGC 1514 in a much fuzzier and ...