Cat's Eye Nebula

Raven 06-16-2008

Three thousand light-years away, the Cat's Eye Nebula, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known. In fact, the features seen in the Cat's Eye are so complex that astronomers suspect the bright central object may actually be a binary star system. The term planetary nebula is misleading; although these objects may appear round and planet-like in small telescopes, high resolution images reveal them to be stars surrounded by cocoons of gas blown off in the late stages of stellar evolution.

Dream

Oh now that's pretty. I can't wait til traveling in space will be a every day normal thing. Get to see stuff like this all the time.

hugo281

right!!! yeah this is an awesome shot, I'll go find a much larger size pic of this same shot and put it as a background on my desktop

spawnschickishot

omg i love this pic!! its soo pretty!! i wish i could see it up close!! i wonder how it would be?

Nina

Kind of makes me wants to watch a star treak TNG marathon right about now, just for things like this.

orange

i never really got to see much of Next Generation kinda sucks... i should just download it all..

anyway, i always love seeing images like this... can usually find more online in high-res...

eg.
the Eye of God nebula
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...293_(2004).jpg
(that image is 3200c3200 for you people on slow connections)

Raven

They all look like abstract photoshop designs. It's hard to tell which are real and which are fake. I would look to see a video of them since I know I will never be able to see them in reality.

hugo281

Right!!! yeah I was watching TNG last night and it did remind me of Raven's pic lol, I still couldn't find a bigger size of this imagine on Google but I'll still keep looking and as soon as I do I'll download it and save it as a background for my desktop here at work

orange

i can understand that.. they remind me of some of the Fractal stuff i've seen.. quite scary some of the detail and images people can make/get from that stuff...


and hugo:
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~gruendl/images/gato.jpg

2100x2100 big enough?

hugo281

awww sweeet Orange hell yeah lol this is awesome thanks dude lol you da man, I just saved it on my computer here and also set it as my background on my desktop and it looks awesome dude lol

spawnschickishot

yea i think this image is kool it looks awsome on the plasma tv!!!

hugo281

right!!! yeah I know what you mean I went home last night and I had my 32 inch Plasma hooked up to my computer and when I put this as a background I was like WHOA!!! lol, yeah it looks awesome thanks again Orange!! you da man!!! and Raven thanks for posting this image up too, you're awesome!!!