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                                   2024 July 26   
      
                                  Facing NGC 6946   
                    Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Marinoni   
      
      Explanation: From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC   
      6946 face-on. The big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located just 20   
      million light-years away, behind a veil of foreground dust and stars in   
      the high and far-off constellation Cepheus. In this sharp telescopic   
      portrait, from the core outward the galaxy's colors change from the   
      yellowish light of old stars in the center to young blue star clusters   
      and reddish star forming regions along the loose, fragmented spiral   
      arms. NGC 6946 is also bright in infrared light and rich in gas and   
      dust, exhibiting a high star birth and death rate. In fact, since the   
      early 20th century ten confirmed supernovae, the death explosions of   
      massive stars, were discovered in NGC 6946. Nearly 40,000 light-years   
      across, NGC 6946 is also known as the Fireworks Galaxy.   
      
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