... Cat s Eye . ... Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat's Eye nebula lies three thousand light-years from Earth. ... A star emerges from its natal cloud of gas and dust in this tantalizing portrait of RY Tauri, a small stellar nursery at the edge of the Taurus molecular cloud, a mere 450 light-years away. ... This remarkable telescopic image highlights the deep orange cast of a waning gibbous Moon seen very close to the eastern horizon earlier this week, on September 19. ... September . ...