Right ascension 01 10 17.1 Redshift -403 ± 4 km/s Apparent size (V) 2′.0 × 1′.5 Constellation Andromeda | Declination +47° 37′ 41″ Type dSph Magnitude 15.9 Apparent magnitude (V) 15.9 | |
Distance 2.52 ± 0.09 Mly (773 ± 28 kpc) Similar Andromeda IV, Pegasus Dwarf Spheroid, Cassiopeia Dwarf, Andromeda VIII, Andromeda II | ||
Andromeda V is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.52 Mly away in the constellation Andromeda.
Andromeda V was discovered by Armandroff et al. and published in 1998 after their analysis of the digitized version of the second Palomar Sky Survey.
The metallicity of Andromeda V is above the average metallicity to luminosity ratio of the Local Group's dwarf galaxies.
Sciencecasts andromeda vs the milky way astronomers predict a titanic collision
References
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