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3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives 'a brand new view of an old astronomical friend'
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 awed ...
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Hubble 30th Anniversary Image of 'Cosmic Reef' (NGC 2014 and NGC 2020) (IMAGE)
In the Hubble portrait, the giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the ...
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3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives 'a brand new view of an old astronomical friend'
We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...