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IC 5152

Dwarf irregular · 5.80 million ly

Morphology
Dwarf irregular
Type
Galaxy
Dec (deg)
-51.29644
Distance from Earth
5800000
Diameter (ly)
8000
Notes
An outlying dwarf with a bright foreground star sitting almost on top of it, which complicated its study for decades.
RA (deg)
330.673
Subgroup
Outlying
Coordinates
22h 02m 41.5s −51° 17′ 47.2″ · IC 5152 via Sc

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From the Celestial Objects database in Notion, last edited 2026-08-21. This page is the row, rendered by the build; nothing on it is written by hand.