List of satellites of the Milky Way
List of satellites of Milky Way:
- Canis Major dwarf galaxy - 25,000 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
- Sagittarius dwarf - 81,000 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
- Large Magellanic Cloud - 160,000 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
- Small Magellanic Cloud - 190,000 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
- Ursa Minor dwarf - 205,500 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
- Draco dwarf - 248,000 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
- Sculptor dwarf - 254,000 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
- Sextans dwarf - 257,500 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
- Carina dwarf - 283,500 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
- Fornax dwarf - 427,000 ly (satellite of Milky Way)
Note: ly means light years
List Of Satellites Of The Milky Way Media
It’s one of the closest galaxies to Earth, but the Carina Dwarf Galaxy is so dim and diffuse that astronomers only discovered it in the 1970s. A companion galaxy of the Milky Way, this ball of stars shares features with both globular star clusters and much larger galaxies.*Astronomers believe that dwarf spheroidal galaxies like the Carina Dwarf are very common in the Universe, but they are extremely difficult to observe.