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A tiny stellar system may be a 'satellite of a satellite'

Astronomers using data from the Euclid space telescope have discovered an exceptionally faint stellar system near the Fornax dwarf galaxy. Called Fornax-7, it appears to contain only about 170 times the mass of the sun in stars. The discovery paper was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Sept. 13.

A tiny stellar system may be a 'satellite of a satellite'

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