Pegasus Dwarf (DDO 216)

Pegasus Dwarf (DDO 216) — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

A dwarf caught mid-transformation — once an irregular, now nearly out of gas and fading toward a quiet spheroidal old age.

Type
Transition dwarf (dIrr/dSph)
Distance
3.0 million light-years

Seeing Pegasus Dwarf (DDO 216) in real time

Pegasus Dwarf (DDO 216) 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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