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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 ...
Cat's Eye Nebula: 3.5 × 10 15 meters 2.5 × 10 15 meters Hourglass Nebula — 3 × 10 15 meters Blinking Nebula — 4.5 × 10 15 meters Light year: 9.5 × 10 15 meters 10 16 meters Rotten Egg Nebula — 1 light year 1.4 × 10 16 meters Ring Nebula: 1.3 × 10 16 meters 2 light years 1.7 × 10 16 meters Oort cloud: 1.5 × 10 15 meters 2 light ...
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 .
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 ...
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File:NGC 6543 outer halo.jpg 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 ...
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 ...
The Tarantula Nebula is a large H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. If it were as close as the Orion Nebula, it would shine as brightly as the full Moon, and would fill the constellation of Orion. Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team 15 May 2005 . 16 May 2005