

This is beautiful. This is called the “Cat's Eye nebula”. It was first spotted by the telescope in 1994, take ". The Cat's Eye nebula sits about 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco. The nebula's concentric rings are the result of eruptions from its central star. This is a composite version of the image, blending data from Hubble (red and purple) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue). It reveals the full beauty of a bull's-eye pattern of eleven or more concentric rings, or shells, around the Cat’s Eye. Each ‘ring’ is the edge of a round bubble seen projected onto the sky, which is why it appears bright along its outer edge.
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