Antlia Dwarf

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The Antlia Dwarf (also known as PGC 29194) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) or irregular galaxy. It is located 4.3 million light years away in the Antlia-Sextans Group in the constellation Antlia. It is the 4th and the faintest galaxy of the Antlia-Sextans Group. It contains stars of all ages, it contains large amounts of gas and has experienced recent star formation. The Antila Dwarf is believed to be tidally interacting with the small barred galaxy called NGC 3109.[1][2]

Picture of Antila Dwarf taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is the faint white spherical light in the center of the picture.

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  1. ↑ "PGC 29194 (Antlia Dwarf) - Galaxy - Sky map and Information". server1.sky-map.org. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  2. ↑ Grebel, Eva K.; Gallagher III, John S.; Harbeck, Daniel (2003). "The Progenitors of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies". The Astronomical Journal. 125 (4): 1926–1939. doi:10.1086/368363. ISSN 0004-6256.
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