The X-ray observations of the Cat's Eye Nebula reveal a hot gas cloud around a bright star, which is shedding its material and expected to collapse into a white dwarf in several million years.
The cosmos has once again unveiled its grandeur through the lens of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope.
The Cat’s Eye Nebula, one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen in space, as captured by Euclid. Credit: ESA Hiding amongst all those millions of galaxies are rare phenomena called ...
Researchers have detected an unusually large, previously undetected molecule in the Cat's Paw Nebula, a star-forming region about 5,500 light-years from Earth. At 13 atoms, the compound ...
M57, also known as the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula—the glowing remnant of a sun-like star. At its center lies a tiny white dot, the star’s hot core, known as a white dwarf.
The Cat’s Eye Nebula takes centre stage in a sparkling sea of stars and galaxies (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi) ...