Amateur astronomer captures ghostly outer shell of the Cat's Eye Nebula

Amateur astronomer captures ghostly outer shell of the Cat's Eye Nebula

Amateur astrophotographer Emil Andronic captured a ghostly view of the Cat's Eye Nebula from Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

Featured Image: JWST Examines the Ring Nebula

The iconic and widely photographed Ring Nebula is one of the most recognizable planetary nebulae: short-lived, often brilliantly colored nebulae that form when low- to intermediate-mass stars shed their outer layers. The three images above show the central region of the Ring Nebula through the eyes of JWST’s Mid Infrared Instrument. The leftmost image clearly shows the Ring Nebula’s central star: a hot, crystallized stellar core called a white d…