Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
NGC 6822 (Barnard's Galaxy)
Dwarf irregular · 1.60 million ly
- Morphology
- Dwarf irregular
- Mass
- 3.1823999999999997e+39
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- -14.79758
- Distance from Earth
- 1600000
- Diameter (ly)
- 7000
- RA (deg)
- 296.23416
- Subgroup
- Independent
- Coordinates
- 19h 44m 56.2s −14° 47′ 51.3″ · NGC 6822 via Sc
Notes
Found by E. E. Barnard in 1884 with a 5-inch refractor. Hubble's 1925 study of its Cepheids was the first to place a galaxy firmly outside the Milky Way.
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