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    The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal (formerly known as the Fornax System) is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938...
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    Alpha Fornacis is the brightest star in Fornax. Six star systems have been found to have exoplanets. The Fornax Dwarf galaxy is a small faint satellite galaxy...
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    found near the Milky Way and M31. The first dwarf spheroidal galaxies discovered were Sculptor and Fornax in 1938. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has resulted...
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    Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, Fornax Dwarf Galaxy, Leo I (a dwarf galaxy), Leo II (a dwarf galaxy), Ursa Major I Dwarf Galaxy and Ursa Major II Dwarf Galaxy,...
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    galaxies' masses. Aquarius Dwarf Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy Carina Dwarf Crater 2 dwarf Draco Dwarf Eridanus II Fornax Dwarf Henize 2-10 I Zwicky 18 IC...
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    discovered a sixth star cluster in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy and a tidally Disrupted Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy. The signature of baryon acoustic...
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    Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, and Leo I Dwarf. The smallest dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way are only 500 light-years in diameter. These include Carina Dwarf,...
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    NGC 1049 (category Fornax)
    cluster located in the Local Group galaxy of the Fornax Dwarf, visible in the constellation of Fornax. At a distance of 630,000 light years, it is visible...
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  • Of the galaxies confirmed to be in orbit, the largest is the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, which has a diameter of 2.6 kiloparsecs (8,500 ly) or...
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    Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars. Their...
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