Ursa Minor Dwarf

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

An elongated wisp of a galaxy made almost entirely of stars over 10 billion years old — it has formed nothing new in a very long time.

Type
Dwarf spheroidal
Distance
250,000 light-years
Note
Almost purely ancient stars

Seeing Ursa Minor Dwarf in real time

Ursa Minor 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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