The Cat's Eye Nebula
esahubble_opo9501b January 11th, 1995
Credit: J.P. Harrington and K.J. Borkowski (University of Maryland), and NASA/ESA
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen, NGC 6543, nicknamed the 'Cat's Eye Nebula.' Hubble reveals surprisingly intricate structures including concentric gas shells, jets of high-speed gas and unusual shock-induced knots of gas. Estimated to be 1, 000 years old, the nebula is a visual 'fossil record' of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9501b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9501b
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.3
- Subject Name
- Cat's Eye Nebula, IRAS 17584+6638A, NGC 6543
- Credits
- J.P. Harrington and K.J. Borkowski (University of Maryland), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1995-01-11T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9501b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC1
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 269.6387717, 66.6330142
- Reference Dimension
- 762.0, 746.0
- Reference Pixel
- 382.0, 374.0
- Scale
- -1.25807834529e-05, 1.26171444381e-05
- Rotation
- -138.8
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9501b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9501b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:43:26+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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