Its distance from Earth is estimated at 613 pc or 2,000 light-years.

[2] The Southern Ring Nebula was selected as one of the five cosmic objects observed by the James Webb Space Telescope as part of the release of its first official science images on July 12, 2022.

This hot central star of about 100,000 K has now blown off its outer layers and is making the nebula fluoresce brightly from the emission of its intense ultraviolet radiation.

[7] The A-type star orbits at roughly the same distance as the edge of a dust cloud surrounding the central white dwarf.

[8] The progenitor star of the planetary nebula had a mass of about 2.86 times that of the Sun.