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    NGC 6826 (also known as Caldwell 15) is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is commonly referred to as the "Blinking Planetary"...
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    +30° 35′ 43″. As the westernmost NGC object in the nebula (first in right ascension), its number is sometimes used as an NGC identifier for the nebula as...
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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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    of 5 arcminutes. More than 16 members appear in an amateur telescope. NGC 6826, the Blinking Planetary Nebula, is a planetary nebula with a magnitude...
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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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    of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects...
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    NGC 7027, also known as the Jewel Bug Nebula or the Magic Carpet Nebula, is a very young and dense planetary nebula located around 3,000 light-years (920...
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    The central star of NGC 6826 is a low-mass O6 star....
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    precession of central stars in planetary nebulae - The cases of NGC 5189 and NGC 6826". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 117: 33–37. Bibcode:1983A&A...117...
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    19475+3119 IRAS 20324+4057 Kronberger 61 M1-92 NGC 6826 NGC 6881 NGC 6884 NGC 7008 NGC 7026 NGC 7027 NGC 7048 Soap Bubble Nebula WR Crescent Nebula SNR...
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