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NGC6822 is located approximately 1.6 million light-years from Earth, in
the constellation Sagittarius. A member of the Milky Way galaxy's Local
Group, it was discovered by E.E. Barnard in the early 1880s.

In this image we see both foreground stars in our own Galaxy as well as stars in Barnard's Galaxy which, because of their great distance appear much fainter. The faint stars which make up Barnard's Galaxy take up a large fraction of this picture, the faint amorphous section in the middle, which fades off towards the corners.