🐱 Cat’s Eye Nebula! This extraordinary cosmic object is called a planetary nebula, which form when a Sun-like star ejects its outer gaseous layers, creating a bright nebula with amazing shapes. Observations of the Cat’s Eye Nebula suggest that it was created by a star that cast off its mass in a series of pulses at 1,500-year intervals. Each resulting dust shell contains as much mass as all of the planets in our solar system combined…which is still only one percent of our Sun's mass! This nebul

Quick little process video of my Ring Nebula painting 😌 Do you like these types or videos? I don’t record a timelapse of the whole piece (anxiety takes forever), but I film a ton of quick bursts of painting! My phone is filled with these videos after each painting. I love seeing how the astronomical objects I paint come to life over time 🤩 —— #artprocess #paintingprocessvideo #scienceart | Dr. Laci Brock

Orion Nebula

Close-up view: Nebula LHA 120-N150: A Massive Star Formation Lab | Hubble