Usually means: Expanding gas shell; stellar remnants.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ring Nebula: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. Ring Nebula: Infoplease Dictionary
  3. Ring Nebula: Dictionary.com
  4. Ring Nebula, Ring nebula: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Ring Nebula: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Ring Nebula: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ring Nebula: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. RING NEBULA, Ring Nebula: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Ring Nebula)

noun:  The (also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 and NGC 6720) a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra.
noun:  The Ring Nebula in Barnard's Galaxy has the official designation of Hubble 1925 III as it was the third (Roman numeral 3) object recorded in Hubble's 1925 paper, N.G.C. 6822, A Remote Stellar System.


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