NGC 6543, the Cat's Eye Nebula, is a high surface brightness planetary nebula located in the constellation Draco, discovered in 1786 and spectroscopically confirmed as gaseous in 1864. With an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Cat's Eye Nebula, photographed by Emil Andronic. | Credit: Emil Andronic. Amateur ...

A red/orange nebula forms a circle of gasses in the center of the image, surrounded by twinkling stars. Even the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's classic tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, noted ...

Data sonification translates information collected by various NASA missions — such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope — into sounds. When a star like ...

Check out that hypnotic glow from the center of this image — it’s the brightest central star in a planetary nebula that astronomers have seen so far. Why does the center of the Cat’s Eye Nebula shine ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.

Feast your eyes on the most mesmerizing feline foot known to humankind. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured this image of the Cat's Paw nebula. The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the ...