Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Leo. At about 820,000 light-years distant, it is a member of the Local Group of galaxies and is...
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Leo V is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2007 in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy...
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space probe identified new dwarf galaxies forming out of gases with low metallicity. These galaxies were located in the Leo Ring, a cloud of hydrogen and...
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Leo II (or Leo B) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 690,000 light-years away in the constellation Leo. It is one of 24 known satellite galaxies of the...
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Leo IV is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Leo constellation, discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy...
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objects List of galaxies List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs List of spiral galaxies Canis Major Overdensity – disputed dwarf irregular galaxy 25,000 light-years...
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Local Group (redirect from Local Galaxy Group)
Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, Fornax Dwarf Galaxy, Leo I (a dwarf galaxy), Leo II (a dwarf galaxy), Ursa Major I Dwarf Galaxy and Ursa Major II Dwarf Galaxy, plus...
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Leo T is a dwarf galaxy situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located...
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last Latin king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia Leo V (dwarf galaxy), a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way This disambiguation page lists articles...
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orbiting the Milky Way. Of the galaxies confirmed to be in orbit, the largest is the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, which has a diameter of 2.6 kiloparsecs...
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Leo A (also known as Leo III) is an irregular galaxy that is part of the Local Group. It lies 2.6 million light-years from Earth, and was discovered by...
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Its confirmation as a dwarf galaxy in 2013 suggests that other such UCHVCs are possibly undiscovered dwarf galaxies themselves. Leo P is noteworthy for...
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gravitationally bound to the Sun. While most satellite galaxies are dwarf galaxies, satellite galaxies of large galaxy clusters can be much more massive. The Milky...
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Boötes I (redirect from Boötes dwarf galaxy)
The Boötes Dwarf Galaxy (Boo I dSph) is a galaxy discovered in 2006, which appears faint, with a luminosity of 100,000 L☉ and an absolute magnitude of...
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Milky Way (redirect from Milky Way galaxy)
Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, and Leo I Dwarf. The smallest dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way are only 500 light-years in diameter. These include Carina Dwarf,...
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Antlia-Sextans Group (section Antlia Dwarf)
Antlia-Sextans Group consists of the galaxies NGC 3109, Sextans A, Sextans B, Antlia Dwarf, Leo P and Antlia B. Leo A might also belong to the group, but...
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interacting galaxies, and Hanny's Voorwerp, a unique deep-sky object. The classical astronomers Aratus and Ptolemy had noted the region of what is now Leo Minor...
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NGC 3226 (category Dwarf elliptical galaxies)
NGC 3226 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy that is interacting with the spiral galaxy NGC 3227. They were both discovered by German-British astronomer William...
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Canes Venatici I (redirect from Canes Venatici I (dwarf galaxy))
Canes Venatici I or CVn I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Canes Venatici constellation and discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by Sloan...
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Segue 1 (redirect from Segue 1 Galaxy)
Segue 1 is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy or globular cluster situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2006 by Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It is located...
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Large Magellanic Cloud (redirect from Magellan galaxy)
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years)...
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NGC 3227 (category Leo (constellation))
spiral galaxy that is interacting with the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 3226. The two galaxies are one of several examples of a spiral with a dwarf elliptical...
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List of coolest stars (section Coolest brown dwarfs)
"Near-Infrared Stellar Populations in the metal-poor, Dwarf irregular Galaxies Sextans A and Leo A". arXiv:1712.06594 [Astrophysics]. Jones, Olivia (2017)...
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cluster. Laevens 1 is orbiting the galaxy at approximately the same distance as the ultrafaint dwarf galaxies Leo IV and Leo V. This hints that all three satellites...
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The Aquarius Dwarf is a dwarf irregular galaxy, first catalogued in 1959 by the DDO survey. It is located within the boundaries of the constellation of...
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Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy is not listed, because it is not discernible as being a separate galaxy in the sky. This is a list of galaxies that became...
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Pisces II (redirect from Pisces II (dwarf galaxy))
dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Pisces constellation and discovered in 2010 in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is...
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MACS1149-JD1 (category Dwarf galaxies)
young galaxy that is known for being one of the farthest known galaxies from Earth. It was discovered in 2014 and confirmed in 2018. The JD1 galaxy is at...
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NGC 3166 (category Intermediate spiral galaxies)
tidal dwarf galaxy, AGC 208457, has formed. Some other gas clumps have also been detected. Three of them are classical dwarf irregular galaxies. There...
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