Astronomers were surprised when they discovered what appeared to be a star surrounded by an ultraviolet ring 16 years ago. It became known as the Blue Ring Nebula, located 6,300 light-years away from Earth in the Hercules constellation.
Now, after years of detective work, researchers, including those from the original NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission that discovered it, have solved the mystery of the object.Observations from ground and space-based telescopes helped the researchers determine that the ring was created when two stars merged thousands of years ago. A sun-like star crashed into and consumed a smaller star orbiting it, creating a cone-shaped cloud of fluorescent debris.
Whew! I held off doing a lot until I knew
Lookin' like a smurf's booty hole.
Why do you have to tell people to wear a mask, i brought batterys and it said not for human consumption.