Ring Nebula

distance

M57 is 0.787 kpc (2,570 light-years) from Earth.

messier catalog

Messier 57

nebula of

Lyra

random

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tags

planetary nebula

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13969

Wikipedia

Ring Nebula (Wikipedia) The Ring Nebula (also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 and NGC 6720) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra. Such a nebula is formed when a star, during the last stages of its evolution before becoming a white dwarf, expels a vast luminous envelope of ionized gas into the surrounding interstellar space.