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NGC 6027d is a barred spiral galaxy that is strictly a visual member of
Seyfert's Sextet Seyfert's Sextet is a group of galaxies about 190 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The group appears to contain six members, but one of the galaxies, NGC 6027d, is a background object and another "galaxy," NGC 6027e, is ...
, a compact group of galaxies, which is located in the
constellation A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms Asterism (astronomy), a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object. The origins of the e ...
Serpens. NGC 6027d is not interacting with the other galaxies in the cluster, but is in the background and just happens to be in the same line of sight. The galaxy is nearly 700 million light years away from the interacting group and is believed to be extremely large in size. One
supernova A supernova is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. It has the plural form supernovae or supernovas, and is abbreviated SN or SNe. This transient astronomical event occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when ...
has been observed in NGC 6027d: SN 1998fe (type unknown, mag. 18).Transient Name Server entry for SN 1998fe.
Retrieved 30 March 2023.


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NGC 6027 NGC 6027 is a lenticular galaxy discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1882 that is the brightest member of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies A galaxy group or group of galaxies (GrG) is an aggregation of galaxies comprising about 50 o ...
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NGC 6027a NGC 6027a is a spiral galaxy that is part of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies, which is located in the constellation Serpens. In optical wavelengths, it has a strong resemblance to Messier 104, the Sombrero Galaxy The Sombrero ...
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NGC 6027b NGC 6027b is an interacting lenticular galaxy that is part of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies currently in the process of colliding and merging, which is located in the constellation Serpens. See also * NGC 6027 * NGC 6027a * N ...
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NGC 6027c NGC 6027c is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies, which is located in the constellation Serpens Serpens ( grc, , , the Serpent) is a constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere. One ...
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NGC 6027e NGC 6027e is a tidal tail of NGC 6027, not an individual galaxy, that is part of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies, which is located in the constellation Serpens Serpens ( grc, , , the Serpent) is a constellation in the nort ...


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Barred spiral galaxies Serpens 6027d 56580 10116 NED05 {{Spiral-galaxy-stub