Canes Venatici I

Canes Venatici I — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

A faint, distant halo satellite teased out of survey data — part of the wave of ultra-faint dwarfs that revealed how many companions the Milky Way really has.

Type
Dwarf spheroidal
Distance
710,000 light-years
Found
In Sloan survey data, 2006

Seeing Canes Venatici I in real time

Canes Venatici I 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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