Hubble & Euclid zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula ESA518341

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For this month’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month, NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope is joined by ESA’s Euclid to create a new view of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543.This extraordinary planetary nebula in the constellation Draco has captivated astronomers for decades with its elaborate and multilayered structure.Planetary nebulae, so-called because of their round shape when viewed through early telescopes, are in fact expanding gas thrown off by stars in their final stages of evolution. It was the Cat’s Eye Nebula itself where