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A tiny stellar system may be a 'satellite of a satellite'
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What happened
Astronomers using data from the Euclid space telescope have discovered an exceptionally faint stellar system near the Fornax dwarf galaxy. Called Fornax-7, it appears to contain only about 170 times the mass of the sun in stars. The discovery paper was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Sept.
Sources & evidence
- Phys.org Reporting source
A tiny stellar system may be a 'satellite of a satellite' โ
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-tiny-stellar-satellite.html