
This picture of the "Cat's Eye Nebula," taken on September 18, 1994, by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope is officially referred to as NGC 6543. Estimated to be 1,000 years old, the nebula is a visual "fossil record" of the dynamics, and late evolution, of a dying star. NGC 6543 is an exploding star 3,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Draco.
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