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Antlia and Dwarf
NGC 2997, a spiral galaxy, and the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy lie within Antlia's borders.
* The membership of NGC 3109, and its companions Sextans A and the Antlia Dwarf, is uncertain due to their extreme distance from the center of the Local Group.
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NGC 3109 is believed to be tidally interacting with the dwarf elliptical galaxy, Antlia Dwarf.
The warp has the same radial velocity as gas in the Antlia Dwarf galaxy, indicating that the two galaxies had a close encounter approximately one billion years ago.

Antlia and .
Antlia (; from Ancient Greek ἀντλία ) is a constellation in the southern sky.
The constellation was created in the 18th century from an undesignated region of sky, so the stars comprising Antlia are faint.
Antlia is bordered by Hydra the sea snake, Pyxis the compass, Vela the sails, and Centaurus the centaur.
Johann Bode's depiction of Antlia.
Antlia was created in 1756 by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who created fourteen constellations for the southern sky to fill some faint regions.
Though Antlia was technically visible to ancient Greek astronomers, its stars were too faint to have been included in any constellations.
It was originally named Antlia pneumatica (" Machine Pneumatique " in French ) to commemorate the air pump invented by the French physicist Denis Papin.
Lacaille and Johann Bode each depicted Antlia differently, as either the single-cylinder vacuum pump used in Papin's initial experiments, or the more advanced double-cylinder version.
There is no mythology attached to Antlia as Lacaille discontinued the tradition of giving names from mythology to constellations and instead chose names mostly from scientific instruments.
Because it occupies a part of the celestial sphere that faces away from the Milky Way, Antlia contains very few deep-sky objects.
It is the brightest galaxy in Antlia at an integrated magnitude of 10. 6.
Chinese astronomers were able to view what is modern Antlia from their latitudes, and incorporated its stars into two different constellations.
Several stars in the southern part of Antlia were a portion of " Dong ' ou ", which represented an area in southern China.
* NightSkyInfo. com: Constellation Antlia
* WIKISKY. ORG: Antlia
Ninety-eight percent can be found in the following 11 clouds ( given in decreasing order of number of luminous galaxies ): Canes Venatici, Virgo Cluster, Virgo II ( southern extension ), Leo II, Virgo III, Crater ( NGC 3672 ), Leo I, Leo Minor ( NGC 2841 ), Draco ( NGC 5907 ), Antlia ( NGC 2997 ) and NGC 5643.
HD 93083 is an 8th magnitude star located approximately 94 light years away in the southern constellation of Antlia.
It was located between the constellations of Antlia and Hydra.

Antlia and 8
The pulsar PSR B0950 + 08 seems to have come from a supernova that occurred in Antlia 1. 8 million years ago.

Dwarf and 14
Sabal minor, commonly known as the Dwarf Palmetto or Bush palmetto, is one of about 14 species of palmetto palm ( Arecaceae, genus Sabal ).

Dwarf and .
The Sweet William Dwarf plant is a biennial plantFrom a gardener's perspective, a plant's status as annual, biennial, or perennial often varies based on location or purpose.
Dwarf and mouse lemurs are nocturnal and arboreal.
Some species, such as the Lesser Dwarf Lemur, store fat at the hind legs and the base of the tail and hibernate.
The Asylum and Other Tales, a series of stand alone articles released in 1983, rated an overall 9 / 10 in Issue 47 of White Dwarf magazine.
He is best known for playing Dave Lister in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, and Lloyd Mullaney in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.
After finding fame in Red Dwarf, he regularly featured on national television, with celebrity appearances on many shows of the time, while he continued to host a wide variety of programmes.
As well as starring in Coronation Street and occasional Red Dwarf series, Charles continues to host his Funk and Soul Show on BBC radio, and performs DJ sets at numerous clubs and festivals nationally.
Charles acquired cult status in 1988, in his television acting debut, as the Liverpudlian slob Dave Lister, in BBC2's new science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf.
Charles has played this role in all eight series, until 1999, and in the 2009 three-part special, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, for channel Dave.
Charles reads the audiobook editions of the Red Dwarf novel Last Human, and his book The Log: A Dwarfer's Guide to Everything, and he regularly attends sci-fi, comedy and memorabilia conventions in connection with the Red Dwarf franchise.
Charles has filmed a 10th series of Red Dwarf, which is due to be broadcast on Dave in October 2012.
In November 2011, Charles took time off from Coronation Street to film a new series of Red Dwarf, returning to filming on ' Corrie ' in April 2012.
In 1997, he and Russell wrote Charles ' Red Dwarf character's book The Log, in which Lister decides to leave a log detailing mankind's greatest achievements.
Shortly after 1832 she wrote the novella The Green Dwarf ( 1833 ) using the name Wellesley.
The Green Dwarf, A Tale of the Perfect Tense was written in 1833 under the pseudonym Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley.
Dwarf elephants, dwarf hippopotamus, and dwarf deer were native to Pleistocene Crete.
Dwarf planet Makemake is such a borderline classical cubewano / scatnear object.
Presumably this alphabet was meant to be used in conjunction with a Dwarf language, but mostly it is used for transliterations.
It is in the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy.
The Fornax Dwarf galaxy is a dwarf galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies.
* Hilker M. et al. Weighing Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster, Astronomical Science, The Messenger 129 – September 2007.

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