Barnard’s Galaxy: Wide-field view | Victor Blanco Telescope

Barnard’s Galaxy: Wide-field view | Victor Blanco Telescope

An image of the nearby irregular Barnard’s Galaxy or NGC 6822 shows a myriad of hot blue massive stars and several famous nebulae in impressive detail. NGC 6822 is located approximately 1.6 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Sagittarius. A member of the Milky Way galaxy's Local Group, it was discovered by E.E. Barnard in the early 1880s. Edwin P. Hubble conducted the first detailed investigation of the galaxy in 1925, using the new 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson. 

Credit: Local Group Galaxies Survey Team/NOIRLab/National Science Foundation (NSF)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Release Date: Jan. 10, 2002

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