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Preferred term
Sculptor dwarf elliptical galaxy
Definition
- A dwarf elliptical galaxy that is a satellite of our Milky Way. It lies about 285,000 light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, and has an absolute magnitude of -11.28 and a mass of about 3 million solar masses. The Sculptor Dwarf is a metal-deficient galaxy containing only 4 percent of the oxygen and carbon elements in our own Galaxy. (An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, by M. Heydari-Malayeri, https://dictionary.obspm.fr/index.php?formSearchTextfield=Sculptor+Dwarf+Elliptical+Galaxy&formSubmit=Search&showAll=1)
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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-XFNNJ0FJ-F
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