Cat's Eye Nebula Age

Herschel was a German-born astronomer who emigrated to Great Britain at age 19.

Cat's eye nebula age. Known as NGC 6543 it is located 3300 light years from Earth in the constellation Draco. No two look alike. The nebula was discovered by William Herschelon February 15 1786 and was the first planetary nebula to be observed with a spectroscope by William Hugginsin 1864.

The Cat Eye Nebula NGC 6543 is a mythical object from the deep sky of the Northern Hemisphere. The alluring Cats Eye nebula however lies three thousand light-years from Earth across interstellar space. Visually it is similar to the cats eye and was named accordingly.

The central nebula very bright was formed 1000 years ago. The nebulas structural complexity may be the result of material being expelled from a binary central star but the existence of a binary companion has not yet been. It is a Planetary Nebula expanding gas shell ejected from an end-of-life star in the constellation of the Dragon whose age is estimated at only 1000 years and the distance at only 5200 light years.

When a Sun-like star nears the. The size and expansion rate of the Cats Eye suggest the nebula is just 1000 years old. The other nebulosity much fainter was apparently ejected from the star previously every 1500 years or so.

I took this over two nights from Nerpio. His early work was devoted to the study of planetary nebulae. Planetary nebulae are like snowflakes.

Each ring is actually the edge of a. A planetary nebula forms when Sun-like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers that form bright nebulae with amazing and confounding shapes. There he built himself a telescope and started to study astronomy.