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 ...

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 ...

When a star like the Sun begins to run out of helium to burn, it will blow off huge clouds of gas and dust. These outbursts can form spectacular structures such as the one seen in the Cat's Eye nebula ...

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 ...

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 ...