Reticulum II
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reticulum-ii-175-14522914
title:
Reticulum II
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Reticulum II is a dwarf galaxy in the Local Group. Reticulum II was discovered in 2015 by analysing images from the Dark Energy Survey. It is a satellite of the Magellanic Clouds and was probably captured relatively recently. Like other dwarf spheroidal galaxies, its stellar population is old: the galaxy was quenched before 11.5 billion years ago. Reticulum II is elongated, having a major/minor axis ratio of 0.6. The size is given by a half-light radius of 15 parsecs (pc). This is too large for
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulum_II
date created:
2016-03-24T11:08:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T14:07:21Z
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