... Ring Nebula Drawn . ... A planetary nebula with a simple symmetry familiar to telescopic sky gazers, the Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the musical constellation Lyra. ... Cocoon Nebula Wide Field . ... A compact star forming region, the cosmic Cocoon punctuates a long trail of obscuring interstellar dust clouds. ... The cluster, dominated by bright blue stars, can be seen with the naked eye in a dark sky in the tail of the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). ...