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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. Nebulium - Wikipedia

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   Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) Nebulium was a proposed element found in astronomical observation of a nebula by William Huggins in 1864. The strong green emission lines of the Cat's Eye Nebula, discovered using spectroscopy, led to the postulation that an as yet unknown element was responsible for this emission.

4. The Scale of the Universe - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Caldwell catalogue - Wikipedia

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   Bow-Tie Nebula: Planetary Nebula: 3.5 Cepheus: 11 C3 NGC 4236 Barred Spiral Galaxy: 7,000 Draco: 9.7 C4 NGC 7023: 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 ...

6. List of planetary nebulae - Wikipedia

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   Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Cat's Eye Nebula: NGC 6543: 1786 3.3 ± 0.9 9.8B Draco: Little Ghost Nebula: NGC 6369: 1800 ...

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   On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Hubble pointed the 100-inch telescope toward M31, a blob of faint light then known as the Andromeda nebula. The human eye only collects up to 0.2 seconds of visual ...

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9. 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 .