On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:08:20 -0500, [1]"bivalve"
<bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com> said:
> >> Both the Magellanic clouds are much closer to us than the
Andromeda galaxy, which is 1,500,000 light years away.<<
>
> Plus a few other small galaxies. Andromeda is the closest
galaxy of
> similar size to our own. I think a recently discovered dwarf
galaxy is
> the closest known to the Milky Way, even closer than eitherm
Magellanic
> Cloud.
There are two dwarf galaxies closer than LMC which is roughly
170,000 light years away. There is the [2]Canis Major dwarf
galaxy which is 25,000 light years away. See also [3]here,
[4]here, [5]here, and [6]here. This galaxy was discovered in
2003. The previous closest dwarf galaxy was the [7]Sagittarius
Dwarf Ellipitical Galaxy (SagDEG) which is 88,000 light years
away and was discovered in 1994. See also [8]here, [9]here and
[10]here.
References
1. mailto:bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
2. http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/images_ri/canm-e.html
3. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031117.html
4. http://www.seds.org/messier/more/cma_dw.html
5. http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311010/
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_Major_%28dwarf_galaxy%29
7. http://www.seds.org/messier/more/sagdeg.html
8. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v370/n6486/abs/370194a0.html
9. http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/sag-deg.htm
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_Dwarf_Elliptical_Galaxy
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