Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Carina Dwarf
Dwarf spheroidal · 330 thousand ly
- Morphology
- Dwarf spheroidal
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- -50.96611
- Distance from Earth
- 330000
- Diameter (ly)
- 1600
- RA (deg)
- 100.40292
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 06h 41m 36.7s −50° 57′ 58.0″ · ESO 206-20A via Sc
Notes
Unusual among the dwarf spheroidals for having formed stars in several distinct bursts rather than all at once, which its colour-magnitude diagram records as separate populations.
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