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thefirststarr · 2 months
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To some it looks like a cat's eye. To others, like a giant cosmic conch shell. This is actually one of the brightest and most highly detailed planetary nebula known- the Cats Eye Nebula. It is composed of gas expelled in the brief yet glorious phase near the end of life of a Sun-like star. This nebula's dying central star may have produced the outer circular concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of regular convulsions. The formation of the beautiful inner structures, however, is not well understood. The featured image is a composite of a digitally sharpened Hubble Space Telescope image with X-ray light captured by the orbiting Chandra Observatory. The exquisite nebula spans over half a light-year across. Of course, by gazing into this Cat's Eye, humanity may well be seeing the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution ... in about 5 billion years.
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA Hubble, Chandra
Processing Copyright: Rudy Pohl
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coomer-every-day · 7 months
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has coomer gone to the cat's eye nebula yet?
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Day 143
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The Cat's Eye Nebula is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786.
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sedtis · 2 years
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the-wolf-and-moon · 5 months
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NGC 6543, Cat's Eye
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spacewonder19 · 2 years
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In the Center of Cat’s Eye Nebula © Hubble
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quiltofstars · 1 year
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The Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543, right) and NGC 6552 (left) // Filippo Scopelliti
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beauty-funny-trippy · 10 months
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Cosmic Cat
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sitting-on-me-bum · 3 months
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Cat's Eye Nebula
(Image credit: NASA Goddard)
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astronomypolls · 2 months
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theparadoxmachine · 1 year
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The apartment ghosts were having a party on the ceiling and Nebbie was Intrigued
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pinkusmaximus · 1 year
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hello please enjoy this painting of the cat’s eye nebula i just finished
everyone knew ogres have layers like an onion, but nebulas? wow. color me surprised.
i wanna do more of these so send ur sexiest universe pics bbs B)
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pearl-kite · 2 years
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Something something astral
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Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray - NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
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dromaeo-sauridae · 1 year
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im going to throw up. artemis 1 just got launched and shes going to the moon. apollo?? apollo can you hear me? we’re coming back. we’re coming back apollo
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the-wolf-and-moon · 10 months
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NGC 6543, Cat's Eye
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