Infrared Ring Nebula

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zorg.ch #69457 by [z]Barbara Harris @ 12.03.2005 00:00 - nach oben - Infrared Ring Nebula Explanation: The classic appearance of the popular Ring Nebula (aka M57) is understood to be due to perspective - our view from planet Earth looks down the center of a roughly barrel-shaped cloud of gas. But graceful looping structures are seen to extend even beyond the Ring Nebula's familiar central regions in this false-color infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Of course in this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, the glowing material does not come from planets. Instead, the gaseous shroud represents outer layers expelled from a dying, sun-like star. By chance, spiral galaxy IC 1296 is also visible in the upper right of this Spitzer view toward the constellation Lyra. The central ring of the Ring Nebula is about one light-year across and 2,000 light-years away. However, galaxy IC 1296 much bigger and hence farther away ... about 200 million light-years distant. Credit & Copyright zorg.ch #69508 by Nice @ 12.03.2005 21:53 - nach oben - Wow, das gseht schön us, wie en Rose. zorg.ch #69509 by Buezi @ 12.03.2005 22:24 - nach oben - eher wie ein implodierender todesstern oder so zorg.ch #69512 by domi @ 12.03.2005 23:04 - nach oben - also ide mitti ischs e ufgschnittes ei zorg.ch #69517 by [z]bert @ 13.03.2005 03:37 - nach oben - eidütig es aug. zorg.ch #69556 by Nice @ 14.03.2005 08:39 - nach oben - ...nachere zünftige schlägerei.