Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Sextans Dwarf
Dwarf spheroidal · 290 thousand ly
- Morphology
- Dwarf spheroidal
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- -1.61472
- Distance from Earth
- 290000
- Diameter (ly)
- 8400
- Notes
- Extremely diffuse — spread over a degree of sky but so faint it went unnoticed until 1990.
- RA (deg)
- 153.26208
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 10h 13m 02.9s −01° 36′ 53.0″ · NAME Sextans dSph via Si
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