Since the average person isnât making less than $20,000 per year (which they would be if $3,150 were two monthsâ salary), itâs clear that grandmaâs rule no longer holds. Weâre not saying that you shouldnât buy an engagement ring, but we also donât think itâs wrong to play with conventions every once in a while.
The pinkish-red color of nebulae, such as M42 in Orion or the Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius, is really a combination of four different bright spectral lines of hydrogen gas. A hydrogen atom has a single proton at its center and a single electron in its outer region.
About this image. The Ring Nebula, M57, NGC6720. This true color picture was taken using Ektachrome film at the prime focus of the Kitt Peak 4m telescope on September 1st 1973. This is unusual: normally color images are made by combining black and white images taken through different colored filters. The Ring Nebula, also known as M57 or NGC 6720, is found in the constellation Lyra. A spherical shell of glowing gas surrounds a central hot star. The nebula was formed when the central star ejected perhaps as much as ten percent of its mass, over a period of some millions of years.