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The Fornax Dwarf galaxy is a dwarf galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies.
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Fornax and Dwarf
It is in the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy.
* Hilker M. et al. Weighing Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster, Astronomical Science, The Messenger 129 – September 2007.
* The Milky Way's satellite system consists of Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, Canis Major Dwarf, Ursa Minor Dwarf, Draco Dwarf, Carina Dwarf, Sextans Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, Leo I, Leo II, and Ursa Major I Dwarf and Ursa Major II Dwarf.
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* Fornax Dwarf
NGC 1049 is a globular cluster located in the constellation of Fornax, in the nearby Local Group galaxy of Fornax Dwarf.
The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley.
Image: Fornax Dwarf GALEX WikiSky. jpg
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Fornax and galaxy
UDFj-39546284, a galaxy which was identified as the most distant object in the universe from Earth as of January 2011, is located in Fornax.
NGC 1097 is a barred spiral galaxy in Fornax, about 60 million light-years from Earth.
It is a 10th magnitude galaxy associated with the Fornax Cluster.
Fornax A is a radio galaxy with extensive radio lobes that corresponds to the optical galaxy NGC 1316, a 9th-magnitude galaxy.
One of the closer active galaxies to Earth at a distance of 80 million light-years, Fornax A appears in the optical spectrum as a large elliptical galaxy with dust lanes near its core.
Notable galaxy clusters in the relatively nearby universe include the Virgo cluster, Fornax Cluster, Hercules Cluster, and the Coma Cluster.
NGC 1365, also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy about 56 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax.
derived a color-magnitude diagram for Fornax 4, a globular cluster within this galaxy.
Image: Fornax dwarf galaxy. jpg
Fornax and is
Fornax () is a constellation in the southern sky.
Fornax is one of the 88 modern constellations.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is located within Fornax, and the Fornax Cluster, a small cluster of galaxies, lies primarily within Fornax.
NGC 1360 is a planetary nebula in Fornax with a magnitude of approximately 9. 0, 978 light-years from Earth.
An exception to the " Local group " rule is Planet Hulk, which not only took place in another galactic cluster but indeed another galactic supercluster, namely Fornax.
The Local Group is located on the outskirts of the LS in a small filament extending from the Fornax Cluster to the Virgo Cluster.
The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field ( HUDF ) is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 24, 2003, through to January 16, 2004.
Located southwest of Orion in the southern-hemisphere constellation Fornax, the image is a bit over 3 arcminutes across.
The field is 200 arcseconds to a side, with a total area of 11 square arcminutes, and lies in the constellation of Fornax.
Unlike the globular clusters Fornax 1, 2, 3, and 5, which have horizontal branches across a wide range of colors and include RR Lyrae variables, Fornax 4 is found to have only red in its horizontal branch.
Fornax and dwarf
This leads to two open questions: Why do dwarf spheroidals allow the formation of globular clusters like Fornax 4 and Terzan 7 ( of Sagittarius dwarf ) long after globular clusters ceased to form in the main body of the Galactic halo?
Fornax and part
The stars of the modern constellation Fornax were formerly a part of Eridanus.
Fornax and galaxies
* Fornax Cluster, a smaller nearby cluster of galaxies
In the example on the left ( below the image of the Orion Nebula ) the telescope took a family photograph of a cluster of galaxies in the constellation of Fornax ( the Chemical Furnace ).
* Fornax Cluster-another nearby cluster of galaxies
Fornax and .
de Lacaille originally called the constellation " Fornax Chemica " ( the chemical furnace ), representing a small solid fuel vessel used for heating chemical experiments.
Fornax has been the target of investigations into the furthest reaches of the universe.
In the 1950s, dEs were also discovered in the nearby Fornax and Virgo clusters.
Dwarf and galaxy
NGC 2997, a spiral galaxy, and the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy lie within Antlia's borders.
The Antlia Dwarf, a 14. 8 < sup > m </ sup > dwarf spheroidal galaxy that belongs to our Local Group of galaxies.
Our own galaxy ( the Milky Way ) has a tiny satellite galaxy ( the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy ) which is currently gradually being ripped up and " eaten " by the Milky Way.
The Milky Way galaxy is currently in the process of cannibalizing the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy and the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy.
* Phoenix Dwarf, galaxy
The Tucana Dwarf galaxy, which was discovered in 1990, is also in Tucana.
At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (≈ 160, 000 light-years ), the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (~ 16 kiloparsecs ) and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (~ 12. 9 kiloparsecs ) lying closer to the center of the Milky Way.
The constellation also contains the Sculptor Dwarf, a dwarf galaxy which is a member of the Local Group, as well as the Sculptor Group, the group of galaxies closest to the Local Group.
* 8. 5 Zm — 900, 000 light years — Distance to the Leo I Dwarf Galaxy, farthest known Milky Way satellite galaxy
Halo stars may be acquired from small galaxies which fall into and merge with the spiral galaxy — for example, the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is in the process of merging with the Milky Way and observations show that some stars in the halo of the Milky Way have been acquired from it.
* Dwarf galaxy
* Dwarf elliptical galaxy
* Dwarf spheroidal galaxy
* Dwarf galaxy
* Dwarf elliptical galaxy
* Dwarf elliptical galaxy or " dE ", in astronomy
* Dwarf galaxy
* The Cetus Dwarf galaxy is discovered.
One of the most nearby Dwarf ellipticals ( dEs ) is M32, a satellite of the Andromeda galaxy.
* Dwarf galaxy
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