Fornax Dwarf

dwarf spheroidal galaxy · satellite of the Milky Way

465,000 light-years from Earth

Found by Harlow Shapley in 1938, it holds six globular clusters of its own. The brightest was seen by John Herschel in 1835, a century before the galaxy itself.

• 465,000 light-years · 6 globular clusters of its own
• as bright as 19 million Suns

kind

galaxy

size

18,600 light-years across