Barnard's Galaxy

barred dwarf irregular galaxy · Local Group

1.5 million light-years from Earth

E. E. Barnard found it in 1884. In 1925 Edwin Hubble measured its Cepheid stars and showed it lies far outside the Milky Way, one of the first proofs that other galaxies exist.

• 1.5 million light-years · found by Barnard in 1884
• Hubble's 1925 estimate: 700,000 light-years

kind

galaxy

catalogue

NGC 6822 · IC 4895 · Caldwell 57

size

6,670 light-years across