NGC 6753

NGC 6753 is a massive unbarred spiral galaxy, seen almost exactly face-on, in the southern constellation of Pavo. It was discovered by the English astronomer John Herschel on July 5, 1836. The galaxy is located at a distance of 142 million light years from the Milky Way, and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of . It does not display any indications of a recent interaction with another galaxy or cluster.

The morphological class of NGC 6753 is (R)SA(r)b, indicating it is a spiral without an inner bar feature (SA), displaying outer (R) and inner (r) ring structures, and moderately wound spiral arms. It is being viewed nearly face-on with a galactic plane inclination by 30° to the line of sight from the Earth. The galaxy is flocculent in appearance with a prominent central region. The virial mass of the galaxy is , while the stellar mass is . It has a star formation rate of ·yr^{−1}, which is confined to a radius of around the core. The most active region of star formation is the inner ring. It has a hot, X-ray luminous corona that extends out to a radius of .

Supernovae

Three supernovae have been discovered in NGC 6753:

• SN 2000cj was discovered by Robert Evans on May 14, 2000. It was positioned against a spiral arm at an offset east and south of the galaxy nucleus. The spectrum showed this to be a Type Ia supernova.
• On May 13, 2005, Type Ic supernovae SN 2005cb was spotted by the Brazilian Supernovae Search team. It was offset west and north of the nucleus and reached a peak magnitude of 15.6.
• The Type II-P supernova SN 2019mhm was discovered by the BOSS team on August 2, 2019. This transient was spotted close to maximum with a magnitude of 16.6, but showed no radio emission.

See also

• List of NGC objects (6001–7000)

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