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Looks like Milky Way's neighborhood is getting crowded: Seven or eight dwarf galaxies discovered orbiting the Milky Way. One of them, Leo T, has a preprint at arXiv.org ( [1]). Looks like it has experienced star formation recently.-- JyriL talk 20:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
I would suggest using this paper by Karachentsev as a beginning point for writing this list. Would other people object if I rewrote this article using Karachentsev's paper? Dr. Submillimeter 07:38, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
This article should be expanded to be more like Andromeda's satellite galaxies, the equivalent article for Andromeda. 70.51.9.25 ( talk) 06:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
The Sag DEG is said to have a 20,000 LY diameter in the text yet in the table of dwarf galaxies it is given a 2 KPC diameter. 20,000/3.26/1000=6.134KPC and 2KPC=6,520LY. Which is it?
99.59.129.23 ( talk) 13:55, 19 September 2013 (UTC)Joseph Paul
I think the distances given in this table would be better as galactocentric distances (distances from Sagittario), and not geocentric distances (distances from Terra). Listing full spherical galactic coordinates would be useful as well to plot their locations in 3-space (otherwise each entry has to be looked up individually). I would suggest at least four columns: galactic longitude (and/or equatorial right ascension), galactic latitude (and/or equatorial declination), distance from the galactic center (Sagittario), and distance from Solar Terra. Nicole Sharp ( talk) 07:22, 10 September 2016 UTC
Hi there. A lot of CO new images about Local Group and recent satellite galaxies of the MW here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.32.29.16 ( talk) 19:03, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello, in your table there is a mix of satellites and external galaxies.
We must distinguish between satellite galaxies, in orbit around the Milky Way, ~ 35 members, and galaxies of the Local Group (~ 36 members), so for a total of ~71 galaxies of which 4 members were discovered since 2008 in a radius of 3 Mpc. --luxorion