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Space Jellyfish

It’s amazing what some of the images from Astronomy Picture of the Day resemble.

This one is from 20/10/18. The halo round the Cat’s Eye Nebula. I’ve not reproduced it here for copyright reasons but click on the link to see it.

To me it looks like a jellyfish.

The central nebula itself, NGC 6543, looks like this in X-ray and visible light:-

Cat's Eye Nebula

Cat’s Eye Nebula

Another image from Astronomy Picture of the Day.

This one was from Sunday. It’s the Cat’s Eye Nebula.

To me it resembles a very early embryo as seen under a microscope. Compare the second image in on the third line down here.

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