| rdfs:comment | - An image of the nebula was on display in astrometrics aboard the USS Voyager in the years 2374 and 2375. (VOY: "Year of Hell") The image was also on display in the Silver Blood copy of Voyager in 2375, shortly before the ship was destroyed. (VOY: "Course: Oblivion")
- The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known NGC 6543 and Caldwell 6 is a planetary nebula in the Draco constellation. Apparenly an alien race orginated from that nebula, however it's never made clear what race. How it was written seems to indicate it might not be Progenitors, but this can't be confirmed. It's seems to indicate the Attas are they.
- The Cat's Eye Nebula or NGC 6543, is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Draco. Structurally, it is one of the most complex nebulae known, with high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope observations revealing remarkable structures such as knots, jets, bubbles and sinewy arc-like features. In the center of the Cat's Eye there is a bright and hot star; around 1000 years ago this star lost its outer envelope, producing the nebula.
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| abstract | - The Cat's Eye Nebula or NGC 6543, is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Draco. Structurally, it is one of the most complex nebulae known, with high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope observations revealing remarkable structures such as knots, jets, bubbles and sinewy arc-like features. In the center of the Cat's Eye there is a bright and hot star; around 1000 years ago this star lost its outer envelope, producing the nebula. It was discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786, and was the first planetary nebula whose spectrum was investigated by the English amateur astronomer William Huggins in 1864. The results of the latter investigation demonstrated for the first time that planetary nebulae consist of hot gases, but not stars. Currently the nebula has been observed across the full electromagnetic spectrum, from far-infrared to X-rays. Modern studies reveal several mysteries. The intricacy of the structure may be caused in part by material ejected from a binary central star, but as yet, there is no direct evidence that the central star has a companion. Also, measurements of chemical abundances reveal a large discrepancy between measurements done by two different methods, the cause of which is uncertain. Hubble Telescope observations revealed a number of faint rings around the Eye, which are spherical shells ejected by the central star in the distant past. The exact mechanism of those ejections, however, is unclear.
- An image of the nebula was on display in astrometrics aboard the USS Voyager in the years 2374 and 2375. (VOY: "Year of Hell") The image was also on display in the Silver Blood copy of Voyager in 2375, shortly before the ship was destroyed. (VOY: "Course: Oblivion")
- The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known NGC 6543 and Caldwell 6 is a planetary nebula in the Draco constellation. Apparenly an alien race orginated from that nebula, however it's never made clear what race. How it was written seems to indicate it might not be Progenitors, but this can't be confirmed. It's seems to indicate the Attas are they.
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