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The galactic masterpiece combines over 100 exposures to reveal previously unseen features of stars in formation.
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy may not be visually impressive, but it is remarkable for its history — it is much older than its host galaxy, the Milky Way, and lacks heavy elements.
A faint dwarf galaxy neighbouring the Milky Way has been photographed in the highest resolution yet, helping provide valuable information about the early universe. Michelle Starr Science editor ...
The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, pictured in this new image from the Wide Field Imager camera, installed on the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, is a close neighbour of our ...
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy is one of the Milky Way’s dozens of known satellite galaxies roughly 300,000 light-years away. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy was one of the first of the small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way to be discovered, and even then it took until 1937 to identify because of its faintness.
The dwarf galaxy Donatiello II is very faint and hard to pick out from the background behind it, but an amateur astronomer was able to point it out. ... it orbits the Sculptor Galaxy.