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A Glowing Bar of Iron Is Haunting The Ring Nebula – And No One Knows Why

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We've known about the iconic Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but it's only now that astronomers have found a giant mystery right at its core.

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An international team of astronomers identified an inextricable and intriguing structure within the Nebula do Anel (M57), one of the most studied planetary nebulas in the sky, located about 2.6 thousand years ago on the planet of Lira. The discovery, published in the monthly News of the Royal Astronomic Society, reveals a long and narrow iron barrier that extends by trillion kilometers in the center of the nebula, and whose origin remains a myst…

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The cloud of iron atoms at the center of the Ring Nebula is 6 trillion kilometers long. One explanation is that it is the remains of a gassed-out planet.

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An international team of astronomers revealed the discovery of an ionized iron structure inside the Anel Nebula. Scientists have detected the narrow “bar” that emits light specifically through iron atoms. The study, published on 16 January in the Monthly News of the Royal Astronomic Society, details as spectroscopic observations of an integral field allow to display this linear line that cuts the central regions of the Anel. The Nebula do Anel, …

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CNN Brasil broke the news in Brazil on Sunday, January 25, 2026.
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