NASA’S Hubble Space Telescope Reveals the Ring Nebula’s True Shape

by Gary Kopycinski on May 23, 2013

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WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 23, 2013. The Ring Nebula’s distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star reveal a new twist.