Fine Ring Nebula Wall Art including Frame Space In its first glimpse of

In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission

The radiation also strips electrons from the surrounding hydrogen gas

along with its massive cluster of stars

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The ALMA observations — shown here in red

Fine Ring Nebula Wall Art including Frame Space In its first glimpse ofThe hazy and aptly named Fine Ring Nebula, shown here, is an unusual planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae form when some dying stars, having expanded into a red giant phase, expel a shell of gas as they evolve into white dwarfs. Most planetary nebulae are either spherical or elliptical in shape, or bipolar (featuring two symmetric lobes of material). But the Fine Ring Nebula captured here by the ESO Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera mounted on the