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Nebula

Ring Nebula

A planetary nebula formed by gas shed by a dying star, appearing as a luminous ring.

Type
Nebula
Domain
Scientific connections
Connections
2

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA · NASA media (public domain)

The Blue Ring Nebula
The Blue Ring Nebula · NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Seibert (Carnegie Institution for Science)/K. Hoadley (Caltech)/GALEX Team

Experience system V6

Nebular structure profile

A visual story for gas, dust, ionization, star-forming context, and observational imagery.

Deep-sky mapStructure diagramImage provenanceRelated objects
  1. 01

    Observe

    NASA imagery anchors the visual reading with licensed source metadata.

  2. 02

    Measure

    Measurement panels use graph coverage, catalog identifiers, and source availability without inventing values.

  3. 03

    Locate

    Located in Lyra.

  4. 04

    Connect

    2 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.

Object type
Nebula
Graph relations
2
Verified sources
2
Image records
4
Domain
Scientific connections
Status
Graph entity

Scientific map

Atlas context

Ring Nebulacoordinate fields shown only when available
  • Located in

    Lyra

  • Associated with

    Planetary Nebula

Original SVG diagram

Deep-sky morphology

Galaxy-scale viewBulge / nucleusDisk or stellar haloMorphology comes from observationNebula
Object class
Nebula
Catalog numbers
Not recorded
Image records
4
Graph relations
2
LyraPlanetary NebulaRing NebulaNebula

Visual knowledge graph

Relationships, not isolated facts

This viewport is generated from the Asteria knowledge graph. Science, culture, and interpretive links remain separated by domain so visual context never changes the evidentiary meaning of a relation.

Image provenance

Photography as evidence

4 cleared visual records
Ring Beholds a Delicate Flower

Ring Beholds a Delicate Flower

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA · NASA media (public domain)

The Blue Ring Nebula

The Blue Ring Nebula

NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Seibert (Carnegie Institution for Science)/K. Hoadley (Caltech)/GALEX Team · NASA media (public domain)

James Webb Space Telescope Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam and MIRI Images Side by Side)

James Webb Space Telescope Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam and MIRI Images Side by Side)

NASA/ESA/STScI · NASA media (public domain)

Looking Down a Barrel of Gas at a Doomed Star

Looking Down a Barrel of Gas at a Doomed Star

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA · NASA media (public domain)

Continue the atlas

Curated next objects

constellation

Lyra

astrophysical object class

Planetary Nebula

The glowing shell of gas cast off by a dying Sun-like star as it becomes a white dwarf, ionised and lit up by the hot stellar core at its centre. Despite the name — coined because their round disks resembled planets in early telescopes — planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets; they are a brief, beautiful final phase of low- and intermediate-mass stars.

nebula

Helix Nebula

Planetary nebula in Aquarius, magnitude 7.3.

nebula

Messier 27 (Dumbbell Nebula)

A bright planetary nebula in Vulpecula, the ejected shell of a dying Sun-like star.

nebula

Messier 57 (Ring Nebula)

A planetary nebula in Lyra appearing as a glowing ring of gas around a dying star.

star

12 Lyrae

Red giant in Lyra, about 736 light-years from Earth.

Observation

How this was captured

Source
NASA
Observation date
2005-02-11

Gallery

James Webb Space Telescope Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam and MIRI Images Side by Side)

This side-by-side comparison shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and mid-infrared light, at right, from NASA’s Webb Telescope.

2022

NASA/ESA/STScI · NASA media (public domain)

Source archive ↗

Data

Scientific data & provenance

Data & provenance

Stable ID
nebula:ring-nebula
Type
Nebula
Domain
Scientific connections
Relationships
2
Graph version
1.0.0

Dataset membership

Open data

In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld

Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/nebula:ring-nebula

Scientific quality

Partial
Unreviewed2 sourcesv1.0.0

3 of 6 applicable dimensions complete, 1 partial

Description
Complete
Source coverage
Complete
Relationship coverage
Partial
Review coverage
None
Citation coverage
None
Image coverage
Complete
Timeline coverage
Not applicable

Scientific entity. Dimensions that cannot apply to this object are excluded rather than counted as gaps. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.

Scientific citations

1

Real, source-backed references — primary papers first, then datasets and institutional sources. Formatted through the citation engine; nothing is fabricated.

  • Image archiveRing Nebula (M57) — HubbleSite / STScI

    Space Telescope Science Institute

    Cite (APA / BibTeX)
    Space Telescope Science Institute (n.d.). Ring Nebula (M57) — HubbleSite / STScI. Space Telescope Science Institute. https://www.stsci.edu/

@misc{cite:stsci-nebula-ring-nebula,
  title        = {Ring Nebula (M57) — HubbleSite / STScI},
  organization = {Space Telescope Science Institute},
  year         = {n.d.},
  url          = {https://www.stsci.edu/},
  note         = {STScI imagery and science for Ring Nebula (M57).}
}

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Sources & references

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

    Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.

  • ESAEuropean Space Agency

    European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.