Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Fornax Dwarf
Dwarf spheroidal · 460 thousand ly
- Morphology
- Dwarf spheroidal
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- -34.44917
- Distance from Earth
- 460000
- Diameter (ly)
- 6000
- RA (deg)
- 39.99708
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 02h 39m 59.3s −34° 26′ 57.0″ · MCG-06-07-001 via Sc
Notes
The brightest of the Milky Way's dwarf spheroidals, and the only one with its own globular clusters — six of them, which is hard to explain for a galaxy this small.
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