Tucana Dwarf

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

A remote, ancient spheroidal stranded at the southern edge of the Local Group — far from any large galaxy, yet long ago stripped of its gas.

Type
Dwarf spheroidal
Distance
2.9 million light-years
Note
A lonely old dwarf on the Local Group’s far edge

Seeing Tucana Dwarf in real time

Tucana 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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