Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Segue 1
Ultra-faint dwarf · 75 thousand ly
- Morphology
- Ultra-faint dwarf
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- 16.07361
- Distance from Earth
- 75000
- RA (deg)
- 151.76333
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 10h 07m 03.2s +16° 04′ 25.0″ · NAME Segue 1 via Sc
Notes
About a thousand times fainter than a normal dwarf galaxy and perhaps the most dark-matter-dominated object known — a few hundred stars held together by roughly a thousand times their own mass in something invisible.
Open on the Cosmic Exploration shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.