New members of the Local Group

Sidney van den Bergh ()
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Sidney van den Bergh: the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6705, 843-845

Abstract: Three new dwarf galaxies have been discovered in the Local Group, the small cluster of galaxies dominated by Andromeda and our Milky Way. The discovery confirms that these dim dwarf galaxies are common in the Universe, but also raises questions about how many galaxies exist that are even less luminous.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/27549

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