Pisces II Dwarf Galaxy

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Pisces II Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located in the constellation Pisces and classified as an ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dwarf spheroidal galaxy
ultra-faint dwarf galaxy
belongsToClass Milky Way satellite galaxies
ultra-faint Milky Way companions
discoveredBy Sloan Digital Sky Survey data analysis
discoveredIn 2009
hasAlternativeName Pisces II NERFINISHED
hasAngularSize very small
hasDistanceEstimateFromMilkyWay on the order of hundreds of kiloparsecs
hasGasContent very low
hasIntegratedLuminosity extremely low
hasMetallicity very low
hasMorphology spheroidal
hasStarFormationActivity none or negligible
hasStellarPopulation old stars
hasSurfaceBrightness very low
hostGalaxy Milky Way NERFINISHED
isDarkMatterDominated true
isDifficultToDetect true
isDynamicallyDominatedBy dark matter
isFaint true
isGravitationallyBoundTo Milky Way NERFINISHED
isLowLuminosity true
isObservedIn optical wavelengths
isPartOf Local Group NERFINISHED
isResolvedIntoIndividualStars true
isSmall true
locatedInConstellation Pisces NERFINISHED

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Milky Way subgroup hasMember Pisces II Dwarf Galaxy