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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...
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    appearance to the Cat's Eye Nebula and the Ring Nebula, whose size, age, and physical characteristics are in turn similar to the Dumbbell Nebula, differing only...
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    Huggins was the first to analyze the spectrum of a planetary nebula when he observed Cat's Eye Nebula. His observations of stars had shown that their spectra...
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    fields. Ant Nebula Barnard's Loop Boomerang Nebula Cat's Eye Nebula Crab Nebula Eagle Nebula Eskimo Nebula Carina Nebula Fox Fur Nebula Helix Nebula Horsehead...
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    1995). "The Cat's Eye Nebula". Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA. Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (4 July 1996). "The Cat's Eye Nebula (Revisited)"...
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    galaxies. Others, such as the Cat's Eye Nebula, had very different spectra. When William Huggins looked at the Cat's Eye, he found no continuous spectrum...
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    Kepler-10b. 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...
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  • Look up cat's-eye in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cat's eye and other variations may refer to: Cat's Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula Cat's eye, the visual...
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  • the individual articles, where available, for each nebula. Please see the linked article on the nebula for references. Many distances are estimates (denoted...
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  • CELs were first observed by William Huggins in the spectrum of the Cat's Eye Nebula, he did not know what they were, and attributed them to a hypothetical...
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    nebulae as found in NGC 2022, NGC 2371-2, NGC 6309, Cat's Eye Nebula, NGC 6563, Dumbbell Nebula, Saturn Nebula, A24, and Hb5. Morris & Reipurth 1990 postulate...
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    into a dense white dwarf and the outer layers are expelled as a planetary nebula. Stars with around ten or more times the mass of the Sun can explode in...
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    achieved his best known discovery. The green emission lines of the Cat's Eye Nebula at 4959 and 5007 Ångström were discovered by William Huggins in 1864...
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    1×1041 Daily increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula 4×1043 Annual increase in volume of the Cat's Eye Nebula 1×1045 One cubic petametre ~1.7×1045 Approximate...
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    Caldwell number.   Open cluster   Globular cluster   Dark nebula   Diffuse nebula   Planetary nebula   Supernova remnant   Galaxy C89 was mistakenly written...
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    declination −66° 33′ 38.55″ The north ecliptic pole is located near the Cat's Eye Nebula and the south ecliptic pole is located near the Large Magellanic Cloud...
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    light-years 1.9 Pm ± 0.5 Pm = 12,000 AU = 0.2 light-year radius of Cat's Eye Nebula's inner core 3.08568 Pm = 20,626 AU = 1 deciparsec 4.7 Pm = 30,000 AU...
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    Structure of the Double Ring Planetary Nebula NGC 2392, the Eskimo Astrophysical Journal v.362, p. 226 October 1990 A Cat's Eye view of the Eskimo from Saturn...
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  • infectious agents Nebulium William Huggins 1864 An element in the Cat's Eye Nebula In 1927, Ira Sprague Bowen showed that the observed spectral lines...
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    speed. They were the first to take a spectrum of a planetary nebula when the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) was analyzed. Using spectral techniques, they were...
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    Due to the precession of Earth's rotational axis, Thuban was the naked-eye star closest to the north pole from 3942 BC, when it superseded Tau Herculis...
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    recognition of Cary Huang's involvement in The Scale of the Universe. Cosmic Eye Cosmic Voyage Powers of Ten "'The Scale of the Universe,' by Two Teenage...
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    Nebulae Abell 50 Cat's Eye Nebula...
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  • the Herschel 400:   Open cluster   Globular cluster   Diffuse nebula   Planetary nebula   Galaxy Category:IC objects Category:NGC objects Caldwell catalogue...
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  • "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for various objects. "The Anteater Nebula - NGC 6726-27 | Gábor Tóth Astrophotography". M. Odenkirchen & C. Soubiran...
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  • Independent. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022. "Royal Mail releases new cat-themed stamp collection". Telegraph and Argus. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 23...
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    Nebulae Abell 50 Cat's Eye Nebula...
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    Nebulae Abell 50 Cat's Eye Nebula...
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    Nebulae Abell 50 Cat's Eye Nebula...
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    also called the Bug Nebula, is a bipolar planetary nebula. NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula, is an emission nebula and star-forming region...
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