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The Cat's Eye Nebula is an image of an ethereal shape surrounded by concentric circles. The shape is a huge cloud of gas and dust blown off of a dying star. The concentric circles are bubbles expelled by the star over time. The dust cloud resembles a translucent pastry pulled to golden yellow points near our upper right and lower left, with a blob of bright purple jelly inside the bulbous pale blue core. The jelly-like center represents X-ray data from Chandra. The outer cloud and translucent circles represent visible light data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Images of the Cat's Eye Nebula

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Images of the Cat's Eye Nebula

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