Astronomy Adventure — The Ring Nebula
1 min readJun 18, 2020
Messier 57, also known as the Ring nebula, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra. What we see is a circle of ionized gas that is being expelled from a dying star in the center of the circle as it becomes a white dwarf.
Originally published at https://thesoundings.com on June 18, 2020.
