Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Reticulum II
Ultra-faint dwarf · 100 thousand ly
- Morphology
- Ultra-faint dwarf
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- -54.04917
- Distance from Earth
- 100000
- RA (deg)
- 53.92542
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 03h 35m 42.1s −54° 02′ 57.0″ · NAME Reticulum II via Sc
Notes
Found in Dark Energy Survey images in 2015. Its stars are unusually rich in r-process elements, which is evidence that a single neutron-star merger enriched the whole galaxy.
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