The Cat's Eye is a young planetary, at perhaps 1,000 years. In part because of this, it shows the multiple stages of a planetary nebula well. The inner, higher-speed gas is slamming into the outer ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

With its unparalleled resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen structural details and features as massive stars are only just being born.

The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC6543, formed when an aging sun-like star cast its outer layers into space, forming a dense central cocoon of dust surrounded by a diffuse veil of stellar ...

NASA created this image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) by combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra Observatory. That super-bright central star is surrounded by multi ...

Amateur astrophotographer Emil Andronic has captured a striking image of the Cat's Eye Nebula from his home in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, showcasing the tenuous outer structure of the famous ...