Re: Another Beautiful Picture



John Schutkeker wrote:
I've never seen the Cat's Eye look so good. The false color makes the iris look like one of JJ Thompson's quaint old drawings of an atom, with the electrons in little circular orbits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NGC_6543_outer_halo.jpg

Nature is amazing. Are the concentric circles in the blue portion near the center compression artifacts?


Shawn
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