Posted on Aug 18, 2021

APOD: 2021 August 18 - Rings Around the Ring Nebula

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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Rings Around the Ring Nebula." Yesterday's Hubble image of the Ring Nebula (M57) was nice, but take a look at this collaboration between the Hubble, Large Binocular, and Subaru Space Telescopes. You are looking at color-enhanced radiation wavelengths of 469 nm, 502 nm, 656 nm, 658 nm, and 2.1 microns.

The three imagery datasets show visible, infrared, and red light (from hydrogen) in a single composite image, extending much further from the central star than we saw previously. It's always amazing to me what you can find...if you just look.

APOD: 2021 August 18 - Rings Around the Ring Nebula

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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth

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Adds to the illusion that it's a large eye looking across the Galaxy Maj William W. 'Bill' Price , have a great Wednesday sir.

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The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky (Audio)

Our friend SP5 Mark Kuzinski would probably be posting this now if he could. So I will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56hqrlQxMMI

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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth

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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Excellent share to honor our late brother SP5 Mark Kuzinski sir.

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SGT Mary G.

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Exactly,SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth!

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SGT Mary G.

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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price - That is an epic song all the way around.

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LTC Stephen F.

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Adam Again – “River on Fire”

The late, great Adam Again. From their 1992 album Dig. Unfortunately this album—and every other Adam Again album—is out of print. You can find used copies on...

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Wednesday, August 18, 2021 entitled "The Ring Nebula from Hubble."

This wonderful image of God's creation brings to mid the poem 'ring and around the roses, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes we all fall down' which was written during the Black Death and is an example of dark humor.

Image: Rings Around the Ring Nebula - Image Credit - Hubble, Large Binocular Telescope, Subaru Telescope; Composition & Copyright - Robert Gendler

APOD Background
"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 remarkably deep exposure - a collaborative effort combining data from three different large telescopes - explores the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much farther from the nebula's central star. This composite image includes red light emitted by hydrogen as well as visible and infrared light. The Ring Nebula is an elongated planetary nebula, a type of nebula created when a Sun-like star evolves to throw off its outer atmosphere to become a white dwarf star. The Ring Nebula is about 2,500 light-years away toward the musical constellation Lyra.

Adam Again – “River on Fire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WycXsQFrDqM

FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter LTC (Join to see) MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. PO1 William "Chip" Nagel A1C Riley Sanders GySgt Thomas Vick CPL Douglas Chrysler Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen GySgt Jack Wallace MSgt James Clark-Rosa SGT Charlie Lee SGT Mary G. SSG Byron Hewett SSG Robert Webster CSM Chuck Stafford SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SPC Jon O.

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