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APOD
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
The Aquarius Dwarf
Explanation: Our Milky Way Galaxy is not alone. It is part of a gathering of about 50 galaxies known as the Local Group . Members include the Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M32 , M33 , the Large Magellanic Cloud , the Small Magellanic Cloud , Dwingeloo 1 , several small irregular galaxies , and many dwarf elliptical and dwarf spheroidal galaxies . Pictured above is the Aquarius Dwarf , a faint dwarf irregular galaxy over 3 million light years away. An earlier APOD erroneously identified the above image as the Sagittarius Dwarf .
| Date | July 27, 2003 |
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| Credit | Credit & Copyright: A. Oksanen , 2.6 meter Nordic Optical Telescope |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |