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    NGC 6946, sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky...
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    right/bottom): NGC 7541, NGC 3021, NGC 5643, NGC 3254, NGC 3147, NGC 105, NGC 2608, NGC 3583, NGC 3147, MRK 1337, NGC 5861, NGC 2525, NGC 1015, UGC 9391, NGC 691...
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    close encounter with another galaxy. Starburst galaxies include M82, NGC 4038/NGC 4039 (the Antennae Galaxies), and IC 10. Starburst galaxies are defined...
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    from the spiral galaxy NGC 6946. The cluster lies approximately 4,000 light years away and it is over a billion years old. NGC 6939 is located near the...
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    2004et is a bright type IIP supernova that occurred in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 (The Fireworks Galaxy), about 22 million light years away from Earth. The...
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    north celestial pole, as well as one of the oldest-known open clusters. NGC 6946 is a spiral galaxy in which ten supernovae have been observed, more than...
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    While most of these galaxies (such as M101 and NGC 6946) are simply asymmetric spiral galaxies, NGC 6365 is an interacting pair of galaxies where one...
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    Kris; Grammer, Skyler H. (January 2019). "Luminous and Variable Stars in NGC 2403 and M81". The Astronomical Journal. 157 (1): 22. arXiv:1811.06559. Bibcode:2019AJ...
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    Veil Nebula (redirect from NGC 6960)
    as Caldwell 33), whose brightest area is NGC 6992, trailing off farther south into NGC 6995 (together with NGC 6992 also known as "Network Nebula") and...
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    resemblance to the Pinwheel Galaxy. It has two HII regions named NGC 3180 and NGC 3181. NGC 3184 houses a high abundance of heavy elements and SN 1999gi,...
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    surveys have detected possible candidates. The red supergiant N6946-BH1 in NGC 6946 underwent a modest outburst in March 2009, before fading from view. Only...
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  • Galaxy NGC 1090". Retrieved Dec. 26, 2006 Matthews, Doug & Betts, Charles (2003). "NGC 2541". Retrieved Dec. 26 2006. Frommert, Hartmut. "NGC 2715" Archived...
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    binaries: The disappearance of N6946-BH1 following a failed supernova in NGC 6946 may have resulted in the formation of a black hole. Black holes in fiction...
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    N6946-BH1 (category Stars in NGC 6946)
    supergiant star and failed supernova candidate formerly seen in the galaxy NGC 6946, on the northern border of the constellation of Cygnus. The star, either...
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  • SN 1917A is a supernova event in the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946), positioned 37″ west and 105″ south of the galactic core. Discovered by American optician...
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    objects, such as the Hyades, the Double Cluster (NGC 869 and NGC 884), and the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253). The Messier catalogue was actually compiled...
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  • 2009), NGC 6946, retrieved 31 August 2011 Schlegel, Eric (1994), "X-ray Emission from the Historical Supernovae in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946: SN 1980K...
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  • This is a list of NGC objects 6001–7000 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters, nebulae...
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  • II Program. The catalogue contains 400 objects. All objects are from the NGC. All objects are visible in mid northern latitudes, since they were all observed...
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    away, and has a diameter of about 4,300 light-years (1.32 kiloparsecs). NGC 6946 - similar galaxy heavily obscured by Milky Way stars and dust. "NASA/IPAC...
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    Identified Supernova Remnants in the Nearby Spiral Galaxies NGC 5204, NGC 5585, NGC 6946, M81, and M101". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series...
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    Identified Supernova Remnants in the Nearby Spiral Galaxies NGC 5204, NGC 5585, NGC 6946, M81, and M101". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series...
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    the fifth time in the 20th century, a supernova within the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 was observed from Earth, at least 22 million years after it had occurred...
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    ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 6946. Retrieved 22 September 2015. Tully, R. Brent; et al. (August 2016). "Cosmicflows-3"...
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  • titled "The Distribution of the Interstellar Medium in the SCD Galaxy NGC 6946 and in a Sample of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies." Upon completing her PhD,...
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  • NGC3021-CANDIDATE-1 NGC 3021 09h 50m 55.39s +33° 33′ 14.5″ Disappearance of a 25-30 MSun F8 supergiant observed in archival HST data N6946-BH1 March 2009 NGC 6946 20h...
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    Crescent Nebula (redirect from NGC 6888)
    The Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away...
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    Eruption of Eta Carinae, P Cygni, SN 1961V, SN 1954J, SN 1997bs, SN 2008S in NGC 6946, and SN 2010dn where detections of the surviving progenitor stars are claimed...
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  • Thumbnail for North America Nebula
    The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest...
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    Research. "IAUC 3539: 1980 S 28". Harvard University. "IAUC 3532: SN IN NGC 6946; Sats OF Saturn; HD 44179; W Hya". Harvard University. "Saturn: Moons:...
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