Sculptor Dwarf

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

The first of the Milky Way’s ghostly spheroidal satellites to be discovered — a sparse swarm of ancient stars barely holding together.

Type
Dwarf spheroidal
Distance
280,000 light-years
Note
The first dwarf spheroidal ever found (1937)

Seeing Sculptor Dwarf in real time

Sculptor 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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