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Keywords: Ring Nebula, spiral galaxy
![Мессье 106](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/05/29/0001234907/M106_KC_c800.preview.jpg)
29.05.2009
Close to the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and surrounded by the stars of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici), this celestial wonder was discovered in 1781 by the metric French astronomer Pierre Mechain. Later, it was added to the catalog of his friend and colleague Charles Messier as M106.
![Спиральная галактика NGC 1300 с перемычкой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/08/28/0001215452/ngc1300_hst.preview.jpg)
27.08.2006
Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of the largest Hubble images ever made of a complete galaxy.
![M57: туманность Кольцо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192832/ring_hst_big.preview.jpg)
4.05.1998
It looked like a ring on the sky. Hundreds of years ago astronomers noticed a nebula with a most unusual shape. Now known as M57 or NGC 6720, the gas cloud became popularly known as the Ring Nebula.
![NGC 4603 и расширяющаяся Вселенная](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/11/10/0001209389/ngc4603_hst_big.preview.jpg)
27.05.1999
NGC 4603, a galaxy with majestic spiral arms and intricate dust lanes, is 108 million light-years away. Its distance has been accurately measured by astronomers using one of the fundamental yardsticks of the extragalactic distance scale - pulsating variable stars known as Cepheids.
![NGC 891 - спиральная галактика с торца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/21/0001191095/ngc891_kp.preview.jpg)
28.02.1997
Is our Galaxy this thin? We believe so. The Milky Way, like NGC 891 pictured above, has the width of a typical spiral galaxy. Spirals have most of their bright stars, gas, and obscuring dust in a thin disk.
![Спиральная галактика NGC 891 с торца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/15/0001199218/ngc891_kp.preview.jpg)
20.12.1998
Is our Galaxy this thin? We believe so. The Milky Way, like NGC 891 pictured above, has the width of a typical spiral galaxy. Spirals have most of their bright stars, gas, and obscuring dust in a thin disk.
![Появление галактики Двинглу 1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217574/dwingeloo1_int_big.preview.jpg)
9.01.2000
Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. But if you look closely at the center of the above photograph, you will see a whole spiral galaxy behind the field of stars.
![NGC 1055 и M77](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/12/15/0001218677/ngc1055m77_gendler_c720.preview.jpg)
15.12.2006
Large spiral galaxy NGC 1055 (top left) joins spiral M77 in this lovely cosmic view toward the constellation Cetus. The narrowed, dusty appearance of edge-on spiral NGC 1055 contrasts nicely with the face-on view of M77's bright nucleus and spiral arms.
![NGC 3314: когда галактики перекрываются](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/13/0001205783/ngc3314_keel.preview.jpg)
7.05.2005
NGC 3314 consists of two large spiral galaxies which just happen to almost exactly line-up. The foreground spiral is viewed nearly face-on, its pinwheel shape defined by young bright star clusters. But against the glow of the background galaxy, dark swirling lanes of interstellar dust are also seen to echo the face-on spiral's structure.
![Гало вокруг туманности Кольцо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/13/0001217713/ringhalo_subaru_big.preview.jpg)
22.09.1999
What's happened to the Ring Nebula? The familiar Ring that can be seen with a small back-yard telescope takes on a new look when viewed in dim light. The above recently-released, false-color image...
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