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Sculptor dwarf elliptical galaxy  

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  • 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. (en)

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http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1436

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