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 ...

One of the extreme northern sky’s most entertaining deep-sky objects, the Cat’s Eye Nebula in Draco (NGC 6543), is a planetary nebula with a high surface brightness.

Known as one of the most complex nebulae in the universe, NGC 6543 , also known as the Cat’s Eye Nebula, is slightly more than 3,000 light-years away from Earth.Astronomers are a bit closer to ...

The nebula Sh2-284 looks a bit like a cat, grinning crookedly at Earth. It’s basically a 150-light-year-wide version of the classic Ceiling Cat meme — or maybe it’s a cosmic tribute to ...

The Very Large Telescope at the Parnal Observatory, Chile, has imaged a distant stellar nursery Sh2–284 that appears like a grinning cosmic cat with a cluster of stars under its nose.

The Cat's Paw Nebula, photographed here by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is a vast cloud of gas 5,500 light-years from Earth. New research suggests it contains a molecule never seen before in space.

This adorable little nebula makes its home in the cloudscape of the much larger Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light years away from Earth. Carina is such a large nebula that it actually contains ...

A 3-D visualization of the Cat’s Eye nebula (left) reveals partial gas rings (yellow) as well knots and whorls on either side of the central gas bubble (blue), all of which were probably ...

Researchers may have discovered how the famous Cat's Eye Nebula may have formed. The iconic nebula, discovered approximately 3300 light-years away from Earth in 1786, boasts a pair of symmetric ...

One of the strangest and most baffling of these cosmic cloud paintings is the Cat's Eye Nebula, located about 3,000 light-years from Earth.

A team of researchers have created the first ever computer generated 3D model of the Cat's Eye Nebula, and it is simply purrrfect. The new image also reveals a pair of symmetric rings that ...