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Cetus III
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cetus lll is an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD) that is a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. It is located at a distance of 251 kiloparsecs in the constellation of Cetus. It has a half-light radius of 90 parsecs.[1]
It was identified as a statistically significant overdensity of stars by the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey. It’s small size made it invisible to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.[1]
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