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Newspaper comprehensive news, NASA recently released this picture, shining emerald green light of the nebula show obvious ring, much like the emerald ring. Said that this is the most massive stars in the universe, the role of the product.

The nebula called RCW120, a diameter of about 10 light years from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. It Scorpio in the sky near the location of the tail, slightly suspended above the galactic plane. Images in this seemingly remarkable ring structure, the human eye can not see, because it is infrared light band. But all this is highly sensitive Spitzer Space Telescope intake of vision. Images using a multi-band synthetic, blue wavelengths of 3.6 microns, green is 8 microns and red is 24 microns.