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  2. Cat's Eye Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Cat's Eye Nebula (also known as NGC 6543 and Caldwell 6) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786. It was the first planetary nebula whose spectrum was investigated by the English amateur astronomer William Huggins , demonstrating that planetary nebulae were gaseous ...

  3. Messier 94 - Wikipedia

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    Messier 94 (also known as NGC 4736, Cat's Eye Galaxy, Crocodile Eye Galaxy, or Croc's Eye Galaxy [7] [8]) is a spiral galaxy in the mid-northern constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781, [ 9 ] and catalogued by Charles Messier two days later.

  4. Caldwell catalogue - Wikipedia

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    Iris Nebula: Open Cluster and Nebula: 1.4 Cepheus: 7 C5 IC 342: Hidden Galaxy [7] Spiral Galaxy: 10,000 Camelopardalis: 9 C6 NGC 6543: Cat's Eye Nebula: Planetary Nebula: 3 Draco: 9 C7 NGC 2403 Spiral Galaxy: 14,000 Camelopardalis: 8.4 C8 NGC 559 Open Cluster: 3.7 Cassiopeia: 9.5 C9 Sh2-155: Cave Nebula: Nebula: 2.8 Cepheus: 7.7 C10 NGC 663 ...

  5. Draco (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    One of the deep-sky objects in Draco is the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), a planetary nebula approximately 3,000 light-years away that was discovered by English astronomer William Herschel in 1786. [4]

  6. List of planetary nebulae - Wikipedia

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    Glowing Eye Nebula or Dandelion Puffball Nebula: NGC 6751: 1863 6.5 11.9 Aquila: ... Cat's Eye Nebula: NGC 6543: 1786 3.3 ± 0.9 9.8B Draco: Little Ghost Nebula: NGC ...

  7. Helix Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63) is a planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding , most likely before 1824, this object is one of the closest of all the bright planetary nebulae to Earth. [ 3 ]

  8. Portal : Astronomy/Picture/26 June 2005 - Wikipedia

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    The Cat's Eye Nebula is one of the most intricate and complex planetary nebulae known. This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a mass of twists and knots of material in the nebula's inner region. The origin of this structure is not yet well understood by astronomers

  9. Orders of magnitude (volume) - Wikipedia

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    Daily increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula [16] 4 × 10 43: Annual increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula [16] [17] 1 × 10 45: One cubic petametre ~1.7 × 10 45: Approximate volume of the Stingray Nebula [18] ~2.7 × 10 46: Volume of the bright inner nebula of the Cat's Eye Nebula [16] 5.5 × 10 46: The volume of a Bok globule like ...