Fine Ring Nebula Wall Art including Frame Space This is a new image

This is a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the face-on galaxy

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

astronaut and associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters

The occasional stars that do show up in these patches are actually between us and Gum 15

The ALMA observations — shown here in red

Fine Ring Nebula Wall Art including Frame Space This is a new imageThe 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