Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation w ritten by a professional astronomer. 2021 November 7 [2]The picture shows a deep image of Cat's Eye Nebula with image data from both the Hubble and Chandra Space Telescopes. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]ESA, [5]Hubble Legacy Archive; [6]Chandra X-ray Obs.; Processing & Copyright: [7]Rudy Pohl Explanation: To some it looks like a cat's eye. To others, perhaps like a giant cosmic [8]conch shell. It is actually one of brightest and most highly detailed [9]planetary nebula known, composed of gas expelled in the brief yet glorious phase near the end of life of a Sun-like star. [10]This nebula's dying central star may have produced the outer circular [11]concentric shells by [12]shrugging off [13]outer [14]layers in a series of regular convulsions. The [15]formation of the beautiful, complex-yet-symmetric [16]inner structures, however, is [17]not well understood. The [18]featured image is a composite of a digitally sharpened [19]Hubble Space Telescope image with [20]X-ray light [21]captured by the orbiting [22]Chandra Observatory. The exquisite floating space statue spans over half a [23]light-year across. Of course, [24]gazing into this Cat's Eye, humanity may well be seeing the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own [25]planetary nebula phase of evolution ... in about 5 billion years. 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