Astronomers have finally found Ceiling Cat in a nebula 15,000 light years away. Who among us hasn’t stared up at the sky, searching for shapes in the clouds? If you’ve got a powerful enough telescope, ...

One of the extreme northern sky's most entertaining deep-sky objects, the Cat's Eye Nebula in Draco (NGC 6543), is a planetary nebula with a high surface brightness. Discovered by William Herschel in ...

Officially tagged NGC 6543, the Cat's Eye Nebula has long been a subject of fascination because of its incredible complexity. In the new composite imagery above, Hubble’s contribution provides a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of the Cat's Paw Nebula — a vast nursery of stars located about 4,000 light-years ...

This cloud of orange and red, part of the Sh2-284 nebula, is shown here in spectacular detail using data from the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). This nebula ...

The Cat’s Eye Nebula known as NGC 6543. (ESA/Hubble & NASA et al. via SWNS) By Dean Murray Space scientists have revealed a jaw-dropping image of a cosmic cat's eye. A new NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch beyond the surface of the Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), a massive, local ...

Feast your eyes on the most mesmerizing feline foot known to humankind. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured this image of the Cat's Paw nebula. The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the ...

This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Cat’s Paw Nebula, so named for the large, round features that create the impression of a feline footprint. The nebula is a star-forming region ...

This cloud of orange and red, part of the Sh2-284 nebula, is shown here in spectacular detail using data from the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). This nebula ...