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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                  2023 August 14   
       An oval nebula is seen in false color. The nebula appears blue in the   
      center, orange and red around the rim, and orange and purple filaments   
         extending to the edge of the frame. Stars are seen throughout the   
         frame. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.   
      
                             The Ring Nebula from Webb   
              Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST; Processing: Zi Yang Kong   
      
      Explanation: The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears   
      through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one   
      light-year across, but this remarkable exposure by the James Webb Space   
      Telescope explores this popular nebula with a deep exposure in infrared   
      light. Strings of gas, like eyelashes around a cosmic eye, become   
      evident around the Ring in this digitally enhanced featured image in   
      assigned colors. These long filaments may be caused by shadowing of   
      knots of dense gas in the ring from energetic light emitted within. The   
      Ring Nebula is an elongated planetary nebula, a type of gas cloud   
      created when a Sun-like star evolves to throw off its outer atmosphere   
      to become a white dwarf star. The central oval in the Ring Nebula lies   
      about 2,500 light-years away toward the musical constellation Lyra.   
      
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