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The Cat's Eye Nebula is a planetary nebula, formed when a star like the sun ejected its outer layers at the end of its life. Long exposure images reveal several distinct episodes of mass loss from the star, with the inner bright nebula surrounded by smooth concentric rings, in turn surrounded by a giant shell of clumpy gas.

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