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Sculptor Dwarf
Dwarf spheroidal · 290 thousand ly
- Morphology
- Dwarf spheroidal
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- -33.70889
- Distance from Earth
- 290000
- Diameter (ly)
- 1600
- Notes
- The first dwarf spheroidal ever found, by Harlow Shapley in 1937 on plates from Boyden Observatory; the class was defined around it.
- RA (deg)
- 15.03917
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 01h 00m 09.4s −33° 42′ 32.0″ · NAME Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy via Sc
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