Sculptor Galaxy
One of the brightest galaxies in the sky, a dusty spiral making stars at a high rate.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Galaxy
- Distance
- 11.4 million light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 8.0, a sight for binoculars
- Size in the sky
- About as wide as the full Moon
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Catalogue
- NGC 253
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Near it in the sky
- FomalhautA white main-sequence star in Piscis Austrinus, about a hand span away.
- AchernarA blue-white main-sequence star in Eridanus, about two hand spans away.
- 47 TucanaeA globular cluster in Tucana, about two hand spans away.
- Small Magellanic CloudA galaxy in Tucana, about two hand spans away.
- Triangulum GalaxyA galaxy in Triangulum, about three hand spans away.