NGC 6946
NGC 6946
Fireworks Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cygnus. It is receding from us at about 7 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
9.1
apparent magnitude
7 km/s
receding (RC3)
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.