File:NGC 6543- The Cat's Eye Nebula Redux (Also known as the Cat's Eye, this planetary nebula is located about 3,000 light years from Earth.) (2941486988).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionNGC 6543- The Cat's Eye Nebula Redux (Also known as the Cat's Eye, this planetary nebula is located about 3,000 light years from Earth.) (2941486988).jpg |
Description: A composite image of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue) and Hubble Space Telescope (red and purple) of NGC 6543 shows a phase that Sun-like stars undergo at the end of their lives. Material from the outer layers of the star in the Cat's Eye is flying away at about 4 million miles per hour. A hot core is left behind that eventually collapses to become a white dwarf star. The Chandra data reveal that the central star in NGC 6543 is surrounded by a cloud of multi-million-degree gas. Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray Observatory NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Medium: Chandra telescope x-ray Date: 2008 Persistent URL: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/catseye/ Repository: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Gift line: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI Accession number: catseye08 |
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Source | NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula Redux (Also known as the Cat's Eye, this planetary nebula is located about 3,000 light years from Earth.) |
Author | Smithsonian Institution from United States |
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Author | Chandra X-ray Observatory Center |
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Source | Chandra X-ray Observatory |
Headline | Also known as the Cat's Eye, this planetary nebula is located about 3,000 light years from Earth. |
Credit/Provider | X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI |
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Date and time of data generation | 30 July 2008 |
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Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
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Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh |
File change date and time | 10:29, 30 September 2008 |
Color space | sRGB |
Image width | 3,600 px |
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Exif version | 2.21 |
Date and time of digitizing | 06:29, 30 September 2008 |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:39, 8 October 2008 |
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Contact information | cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
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