NGC 6753
id:
ngc-6753-183-12123945
title:
NGC 6753
text:
NGC 6753 is a massive unbarred spiral galaxy, seen almost exactly face-on, in the southern constellation of Pavo. It was discovered by the English astronomer John Herschel on July 5, 1836. The galaxy is located at a distance of 142 million light years from the Milky Way, and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 3,140 km/s. It does not display any indications of a recent interaction with another galaxy or cluster. The morphological class of NGC 6753 is (R)SA(r)b, indicating it is a
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Galaxy in the constellation Pavo
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_6753
date created:
2017-09-18T09:14:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T22:29:17Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1147431","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1147431"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/NGC_6753_by_Hubble_Space_Telescope.jpg","width":1103,"height":1101}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16