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The Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is a complex planetary nebula formed from a dying white dwarf star. Its intricate structure, featuring layered gas shells, was initially identified through spectral analysis by William Huggins in 1864 marking an important step in understanding these celestial objects....
A bipolar planetary nebula in Scorpius with one of the hottest known central stars at roughly 250,000 K, producing symmetric lobes of expelled gas extending about 3 light-years.
An emission nebula in Cassiopeia featuring a roughly 10-light-year-wide bubble blown by stellar winds from the massive O-type star BD+60°2522 into the surrounding interstellar medium.
A planetary nebula in Gemini discovered by William Herschel in 1787, named for its visual resemblance to a face surrounded by a fur-lined parka when seen through a telescope.
A young planetary nebula in Musca featuring a distinctive hourglass-shaped inner structure, imaged in detail by the Hubble Space Telescope and revealing layered, color-coded gas regions.
A pillar-shaped dark nebula in Monoceros about 2,700 light-years away, part of the NGC 2264 star-forming complex, named for its conical silhouette against surrounding glowing gas.
A protoplanetary nebula in Monoceros with a distinctive X-shaped appearance and ladder-like rungs, produced by periodic outbursts from the binary star system HD 44179 at its center.
A bipolar planetary nebula in Ophiuchus noted for two nearly symmetric jet-like lobes emanating from a central binary star system whose orbital motion is believed to shape its structure.
An emission nebula in Orion forming an active H II star-forming region, featured prominently in a Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image released in 2014 highlighting newborn stars.
A bipolar planetary nebula in Lupus that appears rectangular from Earth but is actually a cylinder of gas and dust, with a hot central white dwarf ionizing its interior walls.
A bipolar planetary nebula in Norma whose elongated, pinched lobes resemble an ant's body, with jets likely shaped by interactions with a suspected binary central star.
A planetary nebula in Aquila approximately 6,500 light-years away, notable for its complex multi-shell structure and high-velocity gas knots visible in Hubble Space Telescope images.
