Cat's eye nebula

The ring nebula...one of my all time favorite pics, our universe is one beautiful place. This looks like a beautiful eye watching over the earth :)

Cat’s Eye Nebula, NGC 6543, a bright planetary Nebula.

Cat's eye nebula. Nebula is an instertellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases.Cat' eye nebula located in the constellation Draco. Structurally, it is one of the most complex nebulae known. In the center of the Cat's Eye there is a bright and hot star; around 1000 years ago this star lost its outer envelope, producing the nebula.

Cat’s eye Nebula

Astronomy & Cosmos on Instagram: The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray

I thought of giving it a shot at processing this magnificent stellar explosion. The preprocessed data are available on the Chandra site. I used the classical optical palette assignment : 502 N Blue, 505N Green and 658 Red while mixing the X-ray data with the Red channel instead of the Magenta that is usually used (the data isn't in the visible so it's a false color). Interestingly the the Chandra site mentions that diffuse X-ray emission are seen in about 30% of the planetary nebulas in the…

NGC 6543 cat eye nebula

This HD wallpaper is about Helix Nebula Eye Of God, blue and brown galaxy, Space, astronomy, Original wallpaper dimensions is 3750x2973px, file size is 843.76KB

Scientists think they could forecast the fate of our Solar System in several billion years, after investigating within the constellation Virgo an unusual...