Galaxy in the constellation Draco
NGC 6285 is an interacting spiral galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is classified as S0-a in the galaxy morphological classification scheme and was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift in 1886.[3] NGC 6285 is located at about 262 million light years away from Earth. NGC 6285 and NGC 6286 form a pair of interacting galaxies, with tidal distortions, categorized as Arp 293 in the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies[1][2][4]
An uncropped version of the image showing the interacting galaxies and UGC 10641, a flat galaxy at the top left area
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Media related to NGC 6285 at Wikimedia Commons