Nebula Cat's Eye Jupiter a myriad of fine details

a myriad of fine details

This desolate landscape is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range

spanning a width of 600 light-years

NGC 2467 is a huge cloud of gas — mostly hydrogen — that serves as an incubator for new stars

Nebula Cat's Eye Jupiter a myriad of fine detailsThis composite of data from NASA's Chandra X ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope is a new look for NGC 6543, better known as the Cat's Eye nebula. This famous object is a so called planetary nebula that represents a phase of stellar evolution that the Sun should experience several billion years from now. When a star like the Sun begins to run out of fuel, it becomes what is known as a red giant. In this phase, a star sheds some of its outer