Cat's Eye Nebula Hubble
What Gases are in the Cats Eye Nebula.
Cat's eye nebula hubble. The Cats Eye Nebula also known as NGC 6543 is a visual fossil record of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star. The nebula formally catalogued NGC 6543 is every bit as inscrutable as the JRR. A planetary nebula forms when Sun-like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers to form bright nebulae with amazing twisted shapes.
Close esc Hubble Cats Eye Nebula. The Cats Eye NGC 6543 represents a brief yet glorious phase in the life of a sun-like star. About This Image.
Cats Eye Hubble Remix. MetalPrint Ready to Hang Gallery Wrapped Canvas Ready to Hang Unframed Premium Print Unframed Fine Art Print. Three thousand light years from Earth the Cats Eye Nebula NGC 6543 is a sight that draws in the human eye.
Hubble Space Telescope downloaded from the Hubble Legacy Archive Data preprocessing. By comparing images spanning 20 years or more we can watch the nearest of these gently expand without changing their shapes or brightness. NASA ESA HEIC and The Hubble Heritage Team STScIAURA Explanation.
The Cats Eye Nebula NGC 6543 is a young planetary nebula in the constellation Draco midway between Delta and Zeta Dra. Eleven rings or shells of gas make up the Cats Eye. The HST images seem to indicate that the central star is actually a binary system and that the nebula we see today is actually the result of at least two separate events.
Staring across interstellar space the alluring Cats Eye nebula lies three thousand light-years from Earth. One of the brightest objects of its type its resemblance to a cats eye is due to a series of gas loops that have been ejected by the central star over the past 1000 years or so. The alluring Cats Eye nebula however lies three thousand light-years from Earth across interstellar space.