Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Cetus Dwarf
Dwarf spheroidal · 2.50 million ly
- Morphology
- Dwarf spheroidal
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- -11.05389
- Distance from Earth
- 2500000
- Diameter (ly)
- 3000
- RA (deg)
- 6.545
- Subgroup
- Independent
- Coordinates
- 00h 26m 10.8s −11° 03′ 14.0″ · NAME Cetus Dwarf Galaxy via Sc
Notes
An isolated dwarf spheroidal — rare, since almost all of them orbit a large galaxy, and evidence that a galaxy can lose its gas without a big neighbour to strip it.
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