The Hubble Heritage Image of the Ring Nebula

Details The Hubble Heritage Image of the Ring Nebula The Hubble Heritage Image of the Ring Nebula

Dec 1998

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American Astronomical Society, 193rd AAS Meeting, #15.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.1276

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The Hubble Heritage Project was unveiled in October 1998, with the aim of providing the public with pictorially striking images of celestial objects obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. The Heritage Project will primarily select the most visually compelling images available in the HST archive, but will on occasion obtain new images of objects selected for their pictorial, rather than purely scientific, impact. The public will be asked to join in target selection for these new observations. We will present a new color image of the Ring Nebula in Lyra (NGC 6720) obtained with HST's WFPC2 in October 1998. The colors were based on three narrow-band emission-line filters: [N 2] 6584 Angstroms (red), [O 3] 5007 Angstroms (green), and He 2 4686 Angstroms (blue), so that the color coding corresponds to excitation level as well as approximating true colors. In addition to its pictorial and outreach appeal, the image reveals a host of subarcsecond dark globules around the periphery of the nebula. The fact that no globules are seen projected against the central region demonstrates that their distribution is in fact toroidal or cylindrical, rather than spherical. Thus the Ring Nebula is in fact a non-spherical, axisymmetric planetary nebula (like many other PNe), which we happen to view from a direction close to its axis of symmetry.

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