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Top left is NE. Image width is about 14 arc min
Image and text © 1982-2002, Anglo-Australian Observatory, photograph by David Malin.
NGC 6822 is one of the nearest galaxies to the milky Way and is thus a member of a small cluster known as the Local Group to which our Galaxy belongs. It is close enough to be resolved into individual stars, though because of its distance (about 1.8 million light years) only the brightest are seen, even with a telescope as powerful as the AAT.
The galaxy seems to be without symmetry and is classified as an irregular. At one end of a prominent bar a few clouds of glowing gas can be seen; at the other, bright bluish stars are scattered out into what appears to be the first signs of a straggling spiral arm.
Entry from NGC 2000.0 (R.W. Sinnott, Ed.) © Sky Publishing Corporation, 1988:
NGC 6822 Gx 19 44.9 -14 48 s Sgr 10.29. p vF, vS, E, dif; = IC 4895 IC 4895Gx 19 45.0 -14 48 m Sgr 10.08. p group of neb, 25' diam; = 6822 IC 130819 45.1 -14 43 d Sgr eF, eS, lE, gbM, 6822 p 12sRelated Image
AAT 86. Bubble nebulae in NGC 6822
More data about this galaxy is accessible from the hotlinked NGC name and is reproduced
with permission from the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).
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