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**QysnZWB4** · 01-22-2006, 08:00 AM

This is where you can find a larger, high-resolution version of the Cat's Eye Nebula.

Taken from the site:

"The so-called Cat's Eye Nebula, formally catalogued NGC 6543 and seen here in this detailed view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen in space. A planetary nebula forms when Sun-like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers to form bright nebulae with amazing twisted shapes.

Hubble first revealed NGC 6543's surprisingly intricate structures including concentric gas shells, jets of high-speed gas and unusual shock-induced knots of gas in 1994. This new image, taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), reveals the full beauty of a bull's-eye pattern of eleven or more concentric rings, or shells, around the Catâ€™s Eye. Each â€˜ringâ€™ is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen projected onto the sky - which is why it appears bright along its outer edge."

Makes you want to start projecting, huh Donald?

01-22-2006, 08:00 AM	#4
QysnZWB4 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 482 Senior Member	This is where you can find a larger, high-resolution version of the Cat's Eye Nebula. Taken from the site: "The so-called Cat's Eye Nebula, formally catalogued NGC 6543 and seen here in this detailed view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen in space. A planetary nebula forms when Sun-like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers to form bright nebulae with amazing twisted shapes. Hubble first revealed NGC 6543's surprisingly intricate structures including concentric gas shells, jets of high-speed gas and unusual shock-induced knots of gas in 1994. This new image, taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), reveals the full beauty of a bull's-eye pattern of eleven or more concentric rings, or shells, around the Catâ€™s Eye. Each â€˜ringâ€™ is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen projected onto the sky - which is why it appears bright along its outer edge." Makes you want to start projecting, huh Donald?
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