The Canis Major Overdensity (CMa Overdensity) or Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (CMa Dwarf) is a disputed dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group, located...

Wolf–Rayet star embedded within it. In 2003, an overdensity of stars in the region was announced to be the Canis Major Dwarf, the closest satellite galaxy to Earth...

light-years) away) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity. Based on the D25 isophote at the B-band (445 nm wavelength of...

be native to the Milky Way galaxy at all, but instead to the putative Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, which is currently experiencing a very close encounter...

a spinoff of the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan. Canis Major Overdensity Fimbulthul stream Mayall II Messier 54 NGC 5286 Sagittarius Dwarf...

times. This is proposed to consist of a stellar stream torn from the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy by tidal forces as part of the process of merging with the...

appear non-circular and are thus typically given two measures of diameter: major axis and minor axis. For example, the Small Magellanic Cloud has a visual...

Closest galaxy Ursa Major III Ursa Major 32,600 light-years (10 kiloparsecs) A proposed dwarf galaxy known as the Canis Major Overdensity may lie closer at...

NGC 2808 is a globular cluster in the constellation Carina. The cluster currently belongs to the Milky Way, although it was likely stolen from a dwarf...

2001 Virgo stream Defunct dwarf galaxy 30,000 2001 Monoceros ring Canis Major Overdensity 100 million 200,000 Intermediate age stars 2002 Anticenter stream...