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                            NGC 6822: Barnard's Galaxy   
               Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Eric Benson   
      
      Explanation: Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory,   
      flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful,   
      symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like nearby   
      NGC 6822, also known as Barnard's Galaxy. Beyond the rich starfields in   
      the constellation Sagittarius, NGC 6822 is a mere 1.5 million   
      light-years away, a member of our Local Group of galaxies. A dwarf   
      irregular galaxy similar to the Small Magellanic Cloud, NGC 6822 is   
      about 7,000 light-years across. Brighter foreground stars in our Milky   
      Way have a spiky appearance. Behind them, Barnard's Galaxy is seen to   
      be filled with young blue stars and mottled with the telltale pinkish   
      hydrogen glow of star forming regions in this deep color composite   
      image.   
      
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