Cat's Eye Nebula
At a glance
- Type
- Nebula
- Distance
- Milky Way
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- Multicoloured
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- In 1864 William Huggins split its light into colours and showed that clouds like it are made of glowing gas.
- It lies in the constellation Draco, the Dragon, high in the northern sky.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q15829 · All space objects · All entries