Cetus Dwarf

Cetus Dwarf — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

A rare free-floating spheroidal: old and gasless like a satellite, yet orbiting neither the Milky Way nor Andromeda, alone in the middle of the Local Group.

Type
Dwarf spheroidal
Distance
2.5 million light-years
Note
Isolated — bound to no large galaxy

Seeing Cetus Dwarf in real time

Cetus Dwarf is placed at its true position on the sky and at its real measured distance, not as a flat backdrop. Fly out from the Sun in the live 3D view and watch it change from a point of light into structure as you approach, with the scale bar showing just how far out you have travelled.

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