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Hubble's view of the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy (pointing 2)


Date: 26 November 2017
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: Sculptor dwarf galaxy
Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA, CC BY 4.0

This image shows a small part of the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, situated only about 300 000 light-years away from Earth. This is one of two different pointings of the telescope that were used in a study combining data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESA's Gaia satellite to measure the 3D motion of stars in this galaxy.

 
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Last Update: 1 September 2019
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