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Description
English: X-ray/optical composite image of NGC 6543, the Cat's Eye Nebula (X-ray: NASA/UIUC/Y.Chu et al., Optical: NASA/HST).

Optical image: Wide Field Planetary Camera-2, composite image of three images taken at different wavelengths:

  • red, hydrogen-alpha, 656.28 nm;
  • blue, neutral oxygen, 630 nm;
  • green, ionized nitrogen, 658.4 nm.
Date
Source HST's Greatest Hits
Author J.P. Harrington and K.J. Borkowski (University of Maryland), and NASA

Licensing

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Captions

The "Cat's-eye" nebula, NGC 6543, is a planetary nebula: the gas emitted at high speed from the surface of a star which is in the process of becoming a white dwarf. This one is complex possibly due to a binary companion's influence.

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Cat's Eye Nebula

inception

January 1995

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current13:37, 27 April 2019Thumbnail for version as of 13:37, 27 April 20192,100 × 2,100 (722 KB)FriedrichKiefererBetter quality.
08:12, 1 March 2017Thumbnail for version as of 08:12, 1 March 20172,100 × 2,100 (150 KB)The NMI UserImage source from http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/1220/1220_xray_opt.tif
03:20, 1 January 2005Thumbnail for version as of 03:20, 1 January 2005800 × 874 (64 KB)RuMCat's Eye Nebula

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