Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Ursa Minor Dwarf
Dwarf spheroidal · 200 thousand ly
- Morphology
- Dwarf spheroidal
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- 67.2225
- Distance from Earth
- 200000
- Diameter (ly)
- 2000
- RA (deg)
- 227.2833
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 15h 09m 08.0s +67° 13′ 21.0″ · Z 318-18 via Sc
Notes
One of the original faint companions found on photographic plates in the 1950s; almost entirely old stars, with no gas and no recent star formation.
Open on the Cosmic Exploration shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.