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Fornax Dwarf
Credit: DESI LIS, Giuseppe Donatiello
(50% of the original image)
The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy at a distance of 460 ± 30 kly (140 ± 10 kpc) in the constellation Fornax. It was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley.
The galaxy is a satellite of the Milky Way and has six globular clusters (see here)
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The Fornax dwarf galaxy has one of the most complex star formation histories of any of the Local Group dSphs (Stetson et al. 1998). While a few of these galaxies seem to have only old stars (e.g., Draco, Sculptor), such dSphs as Leo I and Carina show star formation.
Acknowledgments
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (“CC BY 4.0”, Summary, Full Legal Code). Users are free to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, transform and build upon the DESI data available through this website for any purpose, including commercially.
This image used data obtained with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI construction and operations is managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High-Energy Physics, under Contract No. DE–AC02–05CH11231, and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract. Additional support for DESI was provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Astronomical Sciences under Contract No. AST-0950945 to the NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT); the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN), and by the DESI Member Institutions: www.desi.lbl.gov/collaborating-institutions. The DESI collaboration is honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on Iolkam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, or any of the listed funding agencies.
See also: www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/42603164340/in/album-...
Fornax Dwarf
Credit: DESI LIS, Giuseppe Donatiello
(50% of the original image)
The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy at a distance of 460 ± 30 kly (140 ± 10 kpc) in the constellation Fornax. It was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley.
The galaxy is a satellite of the Milky Way and has six globular clusters (see here)
www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/51083353861/in/datepo...
The Fornax dwarf galaxy has one of the most complex star formation histories of any of the Local Group dSphs (Stetson et al. 1998). While a few of these galaxies seem to have only old stars (e.g., Draco, Sculptor), such dSphs as Leo I and Carina show star formation.
Acknowledgments
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (“CC BY 4.0”, Summary, Full Legal Code). Users are free to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, transform and build upon the DESI data available through this website for any purpose, including commercially.
This image used data obtained with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI construction and operations is managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High-Energy Physics, under Contract No. DE–AC02–05CH11231, and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract. Additional support for DESI was provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Astronomical Sciences under Contract No. AST-0950945 to the NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT); the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN), and by the DESI Member Institutions: www.desi.lbl.gov/collaborating-institutions. The DESI collaboration is honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on Iolkam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, or any of the listed funding agencies.
See also: www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/42603164340/in/album-...