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49 relations: Absolute magnitude, Boötes I (dwarf galaxy), Boötes II (dwarf galaxy), Boötes III (dwarf galaxy), Canes Venatici I (dwarf galaxy), Canes Venatici II (dwarf galaxy), Canis Major Overdensity, Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, Coma Berenices (dwarf galaxy), Crater 2 Dwarf Galaxy, Dark matter halo, Draco Dwarf, Eridanus II, Fornax Dwarf, Galactic Disc, Galaxy group, Galaxy morphological classification, Hercules (dwarf galaxy), Interacting galaxy, Kim 2, Large Magellanic Cloud, Leo I (dwarf galaxy), Leo II (dwarf galaxy), Leo IV (dwarf galaxy), Leo T (dwarf galaxy), Leo V (dwarf galaxy), List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies, List of nearest galaxies, Local Group, Milky Way, Parsec, Pisces I (dwarf galaxy), Pisces II (dwarf galaxy), Reticulum II, Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, Sagittarius Stream, Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, Satellite galaxy, Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, Segue 1, Segue 2, Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal, Small Magellanic Cloud, The Astronomical Journal, Triangulum II, Ursa Major I Dwarf, Ursa Major II Dwarf, Ursa Minor Dwarf, Virgo Stellar Stream.
Absolute magnitude
Absolute magnitude is a measure of the luminosity of a celestial object, on a logarithmic astronomical magnitude scale.
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Boötes I (dwarf galaxy)
The Boötes Dwarf Galaxy (Boo I dSph) is a galaxy, which appears faint, with a luminosity of and an absolute magnitude of –5.8.
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Boötes II (dwarf galaxy)
Bootes II or Boo II is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Bootes constellation and discovered in 2007 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Boötes III (dwarf galaxy)
Boötes III is an overdensity in the Milky Way's halo, which may be a disrupted dwarf spheroidal galaxy.
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Canes Venatici I (dwarf galaxy)
Canes Venatici I or CVn I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Canes Venatici constellation and discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Canes Venatici II (dwarf galaxy)
Canes Venatici II or CVn II is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Canes Venatici constellation and discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Canis Major Overdensity
The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (CMa Dwarf) or Canis Major Overdensity (CMa Overdensity) is a disputed dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group, located in the same part of the sky as the constellation Canis Major.
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Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
The Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy is a dwarf galaxy in the Carina constellation.
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Coma Berenices (dwarf galaxy)
Coma Berenices or Com is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Coma Berenices constellation and discovered in 2006 in data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Crater 2 Dwarf Galaxy
Crater 2 is a dwarf galaxy discovered orbiting the Milky Way, located approximately 380,000 ly from Earth.
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Dark matter halo
A dark matter halo is a hypothetical component of a galaxy that envelops the galactic disc and extends well beyond the edge of the visible galaxy.
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Draco Dwarf
The Draco Dwarf is a spheroidal galaxy which was discovered by Albert George Wilson of Lowell Observatory in 1954 on photographic plates of the National Geographic Society's Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS).
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Eridanus II
The Eridanus II Dwarf is a low-surface brightness dwarf galaxy in the constellation Eridanus.
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Fornax Dwarf
The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley.
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Galactic Disc
The Galactic Disc is a component of disc galaxies, such as spiral galaxies and lenticular galaxies.
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Galaxy group
A galaxy group or group of galaxies (GrG) is an aggregation of galaxies comprising about 50 or fewer gravitationally bound members, each at least as luminous as the Milky Way (about 1010 times the luminosity of the Sun); collections of galaxies larger than groups that are first-order clustering are called galaxy clusters.
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Galaxy morphological classification
Galaxy morphological classification is a system used by astronomers to divide galaxies into groups based on their visual appearance.
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Hercules (dwarf galaxy)
Hercules, or Her, is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Hercules constellation and discovered in 2006 in data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Interacting galaxy
Interacting galaxies (colliding galaxies) are galaxies whose gravitational fields result in a disturbance of one another.
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Kim 2
Kim 2 is a distant globular cluster.
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Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
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Leo I (dwarf galaxy)
Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Leo.
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Leo II (dwarf galaxy)
Leo II (or Leo B) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 690,000 light-years away in the constellation Leo.
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Leo IV (dwarf galaxy)
Leo IV is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Leo constellation, discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Leo T (dwarf galaxy)
Leo T is a dwarf galaxy situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Leo V (dwarf galaxy)
Leo V is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2007 in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has satellite galaxies just like the Milky Way.
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List of nearest galaxies
This is a list of known galaxies within 3.59 megaparsecs (11.7 million light-years) of the Solar System, in ascending order of distance.
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Local Group
The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way.
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Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
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Parsec
The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System.
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Pisces I (dwarf galaxy)
Pisces I (Psc I) or Pisces Overdensity is a clump of stars in the Milky Way's halo, which may be a disrupted dwarf spheroidal galaxy.
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Pisces II (dwarf galaxy)
Pisces II (Psc II) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Pisces constellation and discovered in 2010 in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Reticulum II
Reticulum II (or Reticulum 2) is an old dwarf galaxy in the Local Group.
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Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (Sgr dSph), also known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (Sgr dE or Sag DEG), is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
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Sagittarius Stream
In astronomy, the Sagittarius Stream is a long, complex, structure made of stars that wrap around the Milky Way galaxy in an almost polar orbit.
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Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way
The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to it, as part of the Milky Way subgroup, which is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group.
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Satellite galaxy
A satellite galaxy is a smaller companion galaxy that travels on bound orbits within the gravitational potential of a more massive and luminous host galaxy (also known as the primary galaxy).
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Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy (also known as Sculptor Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy or the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that is a satellite of the Milky Way.
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Segue 1
Segue 1 is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy or globular cluster situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2006 by Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Segue 2
Segue 2 is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the constellation Aries and discovered in 2009 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal
The Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that was discovered in 1990 by Mike Irwin as the 8th satellite of the Milky Way, located in the constellation of Sextans.
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Small Magellanic Cloud
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), or Nubecula Minor, is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way.
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The Astronomical Journal
The Astronomical Journal (often abbreviated AJ in scientific papers and references) is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal owned by the American Astronomical Society and currently published by IOP Publishing.
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Triangulum II
Triangulum II (Tri II or Laevens 2) is a dwarf galaxy close to the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Ursa Major I Dwarf
Ursa Major I Dwarf (UMa I dSph) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy orbiting the Milky Way galaxy.
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Ursa Major II Dwarf
Ursa Major II Dwarf (UMa II dSph) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Ursa Major constellation and discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Ursa Minor Dwarf
The Ursa Minor Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy, discovered by A.G. Wilson of the Lowell Observatory, in the United States, during the Palomar Sky Survey in 1955.
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Virgo Stellar Stream
The Virgo Stellar Stream, also known as Virgo Overdensity, is the proposed name for a stellar stream in the constellation of Virgo which was discovered in 2005.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_galaxies_of_the_Milky_Way
