Draco Dwarf

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

A few hundred thousand faint stars bound by far more dark matter than light — one of the most dark-matter-dominated objects ever measured.

Type
Dwarf spheroidal
Distance
250,000 light-years
Note
One of the most dark-matter-dominated galaxies known

Seeing Draco Dwarf in real time

Draco 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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