Three Milky Way-like galaxies and their satellites (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Three Milky Way-like galaxies and their satellites

Caption

Image of three Milky Way-like galaxies and their systems of satellite galaxies. The SAGA survey identified two, six, and nine small satellite galaxies in these three systems respectively.

Credit

Yasmeen Asali (Yale), with images from the DESI Legacy Surveys Sky Viewer

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