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Brett Tingley

A star dies in the Cat's Eye | Space photo of the day for March 10, 2026

A new image of the Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, produced by the Hubble and Euclid space telescopes. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Q1-2025, J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov)

Two powerful space telescopes turned their gaze onto the Cat's Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula 4,400 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Draco. The new images reveal stunning details about what happens as a star approaches the end of its evolutionary life cycle.

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