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Leo II (or Leo B) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 690,000 light-years away in the constellation Leo.It is one of 24 known satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. [4] Leo II is thought to have a core radius of 178 ± 13 pc and a tidal radius of 632 ± 32 pc. [5]
Leo I is located only 12 arc minutes from Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation.For that reason, the galaxy is sometimes called the Regulus Dwarf.Scattered light from the star makes studying the galaxy more difficult, and it was not until the 1990s that it was detected visually.
+2.2 dSph 2023 Leo K: 0.0087 434 −4.86 ... The Virgo Stellar Stream is a stream of stars that is believed to have once been an orbiting dwarf galaxy that has been ...
The James Webb Space Telescope recently took a look at Leo P, a dwarf galaxy, and its patterns of star formation. Leo P formed stars early on, and then stopped.
A dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy composed of about 1000 up to several billion stars, as compared to the Milky Way's 200–400 billion stars. [1] The Large Magellanic Cloud , which closely orbits the Milky Way and contains over 30 billion stars, [ 2 ] is sometimes classified as a dwarf galaxy; others consider it a full-fledged galaxy.
The Leo Cluster (Abell 1367) is a galaxy cluster about 330 million light-years distant (z = 0.022 [1]) in the constellation Leo, with at least 70 major galaxies. The galaxy known as NGC 3842 is the brightest member of this cluster. [ 4 ]
Leo T is a dwarf galaxy situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey. [3] The galaxy is located at the distance of about 409 kpc from the Sun [2] and moves away from the Sun with the velocity of about 35 km/s.
NGC 3227 is an intermediate spiral galaxy that is interacting with the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 3226. The two galaxies are one of several examples of a spiral with a dwarf elliptical companion that are listed in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. [3] Both galaxies may be found in the constellation Leo.