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 SAb, indicating it is a spiral without an inner bar feature, displaying outer and inner 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.