NGC 6667 - 2019 (Gary Imm)

NGC 6667 - 2019

This galaxy is located 120 million light years away in the constellation of Draco. The apparent size of the galaxy to us is 1.6 arc-minutes, which corresponds to a fairly average galaxy diameter of 70,000 light years. But this does not look like an average galaxy to me.

The galaxy is classified as a peculiar galaxy. It appears highly disturbed and has star streams in odd arcing patterns around the disk. The diameter of the star streams extends beyond 200,000 light years. Star streams are always the sign of gravitational interaction with another galaxy, but no culprit is visible nearby. In fact, the galaxy does not show signs of star formation - I don't see any blue star clusters, and both the galaxy and the streams have a yellow cast instead of the typical blue cast, indicating that the stars are older. So it seems logical that any interaction may have occurred long ago, although it is interesting then that the star streams still seem so "fresh".

Besides the star streams, two other things draw my attention to this galaxy. First, the core is obscured by dark dust lanes which appear to cross in front of the core. Second, a dark void area appears in the star streams just below the core. I don't recall ever seeing either of these in a galaxy before.

Adding to the craziness, this object has three different NGC numbers - NGC 6667, 6668 and 6678. The edge-on galaxy to the upper left is UGC 11266.

Despite all of the interesting things about this galaxy, this is a rarely imaged or studied galaxy. I have found no studies of it or papers on it. In fact, for the first time that I can recall, my image is the best one I could find anywhere, either on the internet or in any publication.

So why is such a small but unique and interesting galaxy universally ignored by everyone? I have no idea.

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RA (center)	18h30m39s.935
RA (top/left)	18h28m48s.470
RA (top/right)	18h32m36s.354
RA (bottom/right)	18h32m32s.722
RA (bottom/left)	18h28m42s.223

Dec (center)	+67°59′15″.95
Dec (top/left)	+67°50′44″.40
Dec (top/right)	+67°51′20″.84
Dec (bottom/right)	+68°07′43″.34
Dec (bottom/left)	+68°07′06″.74

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