NGC 6946

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

NGC 6946, sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a grand design, face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus.

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