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    and surface brightnesses. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies have a large range of luminosities, and known dwarf spheroidal galaxies span several orders of magnitude...
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    The Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy is a dwarf galaxy in the Carina constellation. It was discovered in 1977 with the UK Schmidt Telescope by Cannon et...
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    and 18% of the galaxies' masses. Aquarius Dwarf Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy Carina Dwarf Crater 2 dwarf Draco Dwarf Eridanus II Fornax Dwarf Henize 2-10 I...
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    Major Dwarf Galaxy (disputed, considered by some not a galaxy), Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy, Draco Dwarf Galaxy, Carina Dwarf Galaxy, Sextans Dwarf Galaxy, Sculptor...
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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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  • Kniazev, A. Y (2017). "Nuclei of dwarf spheroidal galaxies KKs 3 and ESO 269−66 and their counterparts in our Galaxy". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
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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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    January 2015). "A Fast Radio Burst in the Direction of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy". The Astrophysical Journal. 799 (1): L5. arXiv:1412.1599. Bibcode:2015ApJ...
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    galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (c. 16 kiloparsecs (52,000 light-years) away) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy...
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  • spectroscopy of stars in the galactic halo of the Milky Way and in the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, and work on astronomy education. She is also the author of...
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  • a dwarf spheroidal galaxy Burçin's Galaxy is a ring galaxy in Crater, named after Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil Bode's Galaxy is Messier 81, a spiral galaxy about...
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  • galaxy Dwarf galaxy § Common dwarf galaxy types Dwarf spheroidal galaxy Dwarf spiral galaxy Elliptical galaxy Type-cD galaxy Irregular galaxy Barred irregular...
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    Small Magellanic Cloud (category Dwarf barred irregular galaxies)
    The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D25 isophotal diameter of...
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  • items) Be — Bernes (dark nebulae) Bedin — Luigi Bedin (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy Bedin I in Pavo) Ben — Jack Bennett's catalogue of 152 deep-sky...
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  • January 2015). "A Fast Radio Burst in the Direction of the Carine Dwarf Spheroildal Galaxy". The Astrophysical Journal. 799 (1): L5. arXiv:1412.1599. Bibcode:2015ApJ...
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    enabled the measurement of absolute proper motions in nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies, serving as crucial indicators for understanding the mass distribution...
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    catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers. The list was compiled by Patrick...
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  • et al. (2024). "HSTPROMO Internal Proper-motion Kinematics of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies. I. Velocity Anisotropy and Dark Matter Cusp Slope of Draco"....
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    ) However, much finer units are needed to measure the angular sizes of galaxies, nebulae, or other objects of the night sky. Degrees, therefore, are subdivided...
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    of young stars (specifically, Carina or Columba) within a range of about 100 parsecs, 45 million years ago. The Carina and Columba associations are now...
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