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 ...

The Ring Nebula is perhaps one of the most photographed objects in the night sky, dating back to its first image in 1886. Its intrinsic structure has been debated for as long as it has been observed.

It’s most readily identifiable dusty realms lie between the bright central Huygens region and the neighboring De Mairan’s Nebula (M43). The latter is actually part of the same gas cloud that ...