Editing Mz 3 (section)

===Chakram===
Of the morphological features of Mz 3, one of the most unusual and odd is the chakram (first noticed in 2004), a faint, large, limb brightened ellipse that appears to have its center on the PN's nucleus.  While the plane of the ellipse is near the other feature's shared reflection symmetry plane, it is definitely offset.  This structure's kinematics are the only such ones known among studied PN.  Unlike all the other Mz 3 structures, there is no increase of velocity as the radial offset from the nucleus increases.  Consequently, this must not be a simple equatorial flow despite the fact that its motion appears to be strictly radial (that is, there is no indication of rotation which would suggest that this feature is dynamically stable).  All the kinematic properties of the ellipse are symmetric and very ordered relative to the nucleus, consistent with all the other Mz 3 features.  Therefore, the ellipse must be historically linked to the evolution of the central star. {{Harv|Santander-García|Corradi|Balick|Mampaso|2004}}

The Ant Nebula is 8,000 light years away from Earth and it has a magnitude of 13.8.