Canes Venatici II
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Canes Venatici II
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Canes Venatici II or CVn II is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Canes Venatici constellation and discovered in 2006 in data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located at a distance of about 150 kpc from the Sun and moves towards the Sun with the velocity of about 130 km/s. It is classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) meaning that it has an elliptical shape with a half-light radius of about 74+14−10 pc. CVn II is one of the smallest and faintest satellites of
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Galaxy in constellation Canes Venatici
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canes_Venatici_II
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2024-04-24T00:11:30Z
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