Key facts
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Right ascension
- 20 16 56.558
- Declination
- −70 ° 46 ′ 04.60 ″
- Redshift
- 0.015 194 ± 0.0001
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4555 ± 30 km/s
- Galactocentric velocity
- 4443 ± 30 km/s
- Distance
- 212 Mly (65 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude v
- −23.29
- Type
- unringed barred spiral, peculiar</span>"}]]}'>SB(s)b pec
- Mass
- >10 M ☉
- Size
- 219.63 kiloparsecs (716,000 light-years )(diameter; 25.0 mag/arcsec B-band isophote )
- Apparent size v
- 6.0 ′ × 1.7 ′
- Notable features
- Interacting galaxy with IC 4970
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6872, also known as the Condor Galaxy, is a large barred spiral galaxy of type SB(s)b pec in the constellation Pavo. It is 212 million light-years (65 Mpc) from Earth. NGC 6872 is interacting with the lenticular galaxy IC 4970, which is less than one twelfth as large. The galaxy has two elongated arms with a diameter based on ultraviolet light of over 522,000 light-years (160,000 pc), and a D25.5 isophotal diameter of over 717,000 light-years (220,000 pc), making it the largest known spiral galaxy. The galaxy contains a central black hole with a mass of 269 million M☉. It was discovered on 27 June 1835 by English astronomer John Herschel.
Star formation rates
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1148212” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.