The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, also known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It contains four globular clusters in it
The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in Aitoff allsky view
Palomar 12, believed to have been captured from the Sgr dSph about 1.7 Gya
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A satellite galaxy is a smaller companion galaxy that travels on bound orbits within the gravitational potential of a more massive and luminous host galaxy. Satellite galaxies and their constituents a
Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
…Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (Sgr dSph), also known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (Sgr dE or Sag DEG), is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It contains four globular clusters in its main body, with the brightest of them — NGC 6715 (M54) — known well before the discovery…
The Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy, and fourth largest in the Local Group. This satellite is also classified as a transition type between a dwarf spiral and dwarf irregular.
Remnants of a minor merger can be observed in the form of a stellar stream falling onto the galaxy NGC 5907.
An edge-on photo of the Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565) that demonstrates the observed thick disk and thin disk components of satellite galaxies.