Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Bootes I
Ultra-faint dwarf · 197 thousand ly
- Morphology
- Ultra-faint dwarf
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- 14.5
- Distance from Earth
- 197000
- RA (deg)
- 210
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 14h 00m 00.0s +14° 30′ 00.0″ · NAME Bootes Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy via Sc
Notes
One of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's haul of ultra-faint companions, found in 2006 by spotting a slight over-density of stars rather than by seeing anything.
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