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For the #aapod2 Astronomy Photo of the Day for 2025 May 27: "Sextans A – A Dwarf Galaxy on the Fringe". Taken with Planewave CDK14 + 0.8x Tele Vue "is" Reducer + Baader Filters + QHY 268M camera.
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A deep-space image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located near the center of the frame. The galaxy appears as a small, faint, gumdrop-shaped cluster with bright blue and pink patches indicating young star clusters and star-forming regions. It is surrounded by a dense field of stars, including several bright yellow and white foreground stars from the Milky Way, which have diffraction spikes from the telescope optics. The background is filled with countless faint stars and distant galaxies.
📸 Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A
This tiny galaxy, just 5,000 light-years wide, glows with young blue stars and pink star-forming regions. It lies 4.5 million light-years away in Sextans, on the edge of our Local Group.
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🌌 Small but mighty! Sextans A, a dwarf galaxy just 5,000 light-years wide, forms stars in a gumdrop-shaped region 4.5M light-years away. Proof that spirals don't get all the fun.
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Image of Sextans A, an irregular galaxy located 10 million light-years away in the Local Group. The gumdrop-shaped galaxy displays bright, young blue star clusters against a backdrop of yellowish Milky Way foreground stars. This image showcases the beauty and star-forming activity of a less-celebrated type of galaxy.
Astronomy Picture from 14/11/1997
Irregular Galaxy Sextans A
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap971114.html
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Image of Sextans A, an irregular galaxy in the Local Group, approximately 10 million light-years away. The image shows a gumdrop-shaped galaxy with bright, young blue star clusters visible against a backdrop of yellowish foreground Milky Way stars.
Astronomy Picture from 14/11/1997
Irregular Galaxy Sextans A
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap971114.html
#SextansA #IrregularGalaxy #StarFormation #LocalGroupGalaxies #Galaxy #Astronomy #Space #Cosmology #Astrophysics #MilkyWay #DeepSpace #Universe #StarClusters #Astrophotography
