Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dwarf galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Parent body
- Milky Way
- Child body
- NGC 1049
- Distance from Earth
- 0.14
- Image
- Fornax dwarf galaxy.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1938-01-01
- discoverer or inventor
- Harlow Shapley
- site of astronomical discovery
- Boyden Observatory
- apparent magnitude
- 6.62
- Commons category
- Fornax dwarf
- right ascension
- 39.99708
- declination
- -34.44917
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 55.3
- redshift
- 0.000177
- catalog code
- [FG85] 55
- galaxy morphological type
- dSph
- metallicity
- -1.29
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.476
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.360
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