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Showing posts with label Ring Nebula drawn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ring Nebula drawn. Show all posts

Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Ring Nebula drawn


The Ring Nebula (M 57) is a planetary nebula with a simple symmetry that is familiar to observers of the sky with a telescope. It lays about 2,000 light years away in the constellation Lyra music.

This drawing cosmic ring shows signs of changing colors and subtle details. It was done under excellent conditions of direct observation of eye of a reflecting telescope of 40 inches with a 800x increase. To create the original drawing used colored pencils on white paper, here shown digitally scanned with a palette of colors inverted. With a diameter of about one light year, the nebula is composed of several layers ejected by a dying star that was like the sun.