Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  Barnard's Galaxy  ·  NGC 6822
Barnard's Galaxy, Graham
Barnard's Galaxy
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Barnard's Galaxy

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Barnard's Galaxy

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NGC 6822 (also known as Barnard's GalaxyIC 4895, or Caldwell 57) is a barred irregular galaxy approximately 1.6 million light-years away in the constellationSagittarius. Part of the Local Group of galaxies, it was discovered by E. E. Barnard in 1884 (hence its name), with a six-inch refractor telescope. It is one of the closer galaxies to the Milky Way, but lies just outside its virial radius.[5] It is similar in structure and composition to the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is about 7,000 light-years in diameter.[6]

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