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The Tucana Dwarf galaxy, which was discovered in 1990, is also in Tucana.
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Tucana and Dwarf
The other members of the group are gravitationally secluded from these large subgroups: IC10, IC1613, Phoenix Dwarf, Leo A, Tucana Dwarf, Cetus Dwarf, Pegasus Dwarf Irregular, Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte, Aquarius Dwarf, and Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular.
The Tucana Dwarf galaxy is one of only two dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Group that is not located near the Milky Way or the Andromeda Galaxy.
Tucana and galaxy
At the southern end of Tucana lies the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the nearest neighbors to the Milky Way galaxy at a distance of 210, 000 light-years.
* The New General Catalogue object NGC 53, a magnitude 12. 6 barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Tucana
Tucana and was
Polophylax ( Greek: guardian of the celestial pole ) was a southern constellation that laid where Tucana and Grus now are.
Tucana and is
NGC 362 is another globular cluster in Tucana with a magnitude of 6. 4, 27, 700 light-years from Earth.
It is located in the constellation of Tucana and appears as a hazy, light patch in the night sky about 3 degrees across.
Tucana and also
The third Ariel 5 catalog ( 3A ) also contains this early X-ray source within Tucana: 3A 0116-736 ( 2A 0116-737, SMC X-1 ).
Tucana and .
Plancius's constellations ( mostly referring to animals and subjects described in natural history books and travellers ' journals of his day ) are Apis the Bee ( later changed to Musca by Lacaille ), Apus the Bird of Paradise, Chamaeleon, Dorado the Goldfish ( or Swordfish ), Grus the Crane, Hydrus the Small Water Snake, Indus the Indian, Pavo the Peacock, Phoenix, Triangulum Australe the Southern Triangle, Tucana the Toucan, and Volans the Flying Fish.
Dwarf and galaxy
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.
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.
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