Barnard’s Galaxy (NGC 6822) was discovered by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard through a 6-inch refractor in 1881. You’ll find this object in Sagittarius, 1.5° north-northeast of ...

Barnard’s Galaxy (NGC 6822) is the easiest Local Group member to observe in Sagittarius. It was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1884 with a 6-inch refractor; this late-19th-century ...

Here’s how it works. A stunning new image of one of the Milky Way's nearestgalactic neighbors, Barnard's Galaxy, reveals rich star formation andcuriously-shaped nebulas. At the relatively close ...

Astronomers confirm the existence of small, hot and likely rocky planets by observing the subtle gravitational wobbles of the star they orbit Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science ...

Meixner The galaxy NGC 6822, also known as Barnard's Galaxy, has a rich history with astronomy as our nearest intergalactic neighbor. So naturally, scientists wanted to get a good look at it with ...

Barnard's Star is a red dwarf ... One reason is that they are the most populous type of star in the galaxy and make up the majority of the closest stars to us. Second, their small masses make ...

But not everything in our galaxy (or beyond ... my favorite beyond a doubt is Barnard 68, colloquially called B68. Located about 500 light-years from Earth, it’s a vaguely comma-shaped and ...

But the latest find is for real. By Dennis Overbye Barnard’s Star is a dim, reddish ball of gas just six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is the nearest stand-alone ...