“I would like a ring…” 💍✨ The universe understood the assignment. Say hello to Messier 57, the Ring Nebula, about 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Captured here as we zoom in with the James Webb Space Telescope 🌌🔭 The colours reveal its chemistry: blue for helium, lighter blues for hydrogen and oxygen, and red for nitrogen and sulfur. 📷: NASA, CSA, ESA | Canadian Space Agency

Science&Universe on Instagram: "The nebula, officially known as Hen 2-104, is located several thousand light-years from Earth in the southern hemisphere constellation of Centaurus. It appears to have two nested hourglass-shaped structures that were sculpted by a whirling pair of stars in a binary system. The duo consists of an aging red giant star and a burned-out star, a white dwarf. The red giant is shedding its outer layers. Some of this ejected material is attracted by the gravity of the com