July 27, 2003
Every birthday is a reminder that you are made of the same material as the stars overhead — carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, all cooked in stellar...
The Aquarius Dwarf
Birthday · July 27, 2003
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APOD published July 27, 2003. Credit: A. Oksanen, 2.6 meter Nordic Optical Telescope. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Our Milky Way Galaxy is not alone. It is part of a gathering of about 50 galaxies known as the Local Group. Members include the Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M32, M33, the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, Dwingeloo 1, several small irregular galaxies, and many dwarf elliptical and dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Pictured above is the Aquarius Dwarf, a faint dwarf irregular galaxy over 3 million light years away. An earlier APOD erroneously identified the above image as the Sagittarius Dwarf.
Image credit: A. Oksanen, 2.6 meter Nordic Optical Telescope