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Data sonification translates information collected by various NASA missions — such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope — into sounds. When a star like ...

One of the extreme northern sky's most entertaining deep-sky objects, the Cat's Eye Nebula in Draco (NGC 6543), is a planetary nebula with a high surface brightness. Discovered by William Herschel in ...

Check out that hypnotic glow from the center of this image — it’s the brightest central star in a planetary nebula that astronomers have seen so far. Why does the center of the Cat’s Eye Nebula shine ...