Sculptor Dwarf

dwarf spheroidal galaxy · satellite of the Milky Way

274,000 light-years from Earth

The first dwarf spheroidal galaxy ever found, reported by Harlow Shapley in 1938 from photographs taken in South Africa. Most of its stars are more than 10 billion years old.

• 274,000 light-years · found in 1938
• half its light lies within 980 light-years

kind

galaxy

size

11,800 light-years across