Dragonfly 44
id:
dragonfly-44-180-8842224
title:
Dragonfly 44
text:
Dragonfly 44 is an ultra diffuse galaxy in the Coma Cluster. This galaxy is well-known because observations of the velocity dispersion in 2016 suggested a mass of about one trillion solar masses, about the same as the Milky Way. This mass was consistent with a count of about 90 and 70 globular clusters observed around Dragonfly 44 in two different studies. Later, spatially resolved kinematics measured a mass of about 160 billion solar masses, six times less than early mass measurements and one o
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Galaxy in constellation Coma Berenices
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_44
date created:
2016-08-26T11:49:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T12:50:30Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q26703430","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q26703430"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Df44-BW-high-contrast.png","width":1700,"height":1700}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16