Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lyra (Lyr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1296  ·  M 57  ·  NGC 6720  ·  PK063+13.1  ·  Ring nebula  ·  Ring nebula in Lyra
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M57, Max Pyatnytskyy
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M57 "Ring" Nebula

Gaseous shell (~1 l.y. in diameter) surrounds dead star: a white dwarf (faint star in the center of the nebula). The white dwarf -- a remnant of the star, in fact, dead star's nucleus -- is hot enough to emit powerful ultraviolet radiation. That ultraviolet emission makes surrounding gases to glow.

This is the second attempt to process the material gathered during night 28th-29th of June 2017.

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M57, Max Pyatnytskyy