Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Cetus (Cet)
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Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM) Dwarf Galaxy, PJ Mahany
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Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM) Dwarf Galaxy

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Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM) Dwarf Galaxy, PJ Mahany
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Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM) Dwarf Galaxy

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An outlier in our local group, it is around 3 million light years away. It is an edge on barred irregular spiral in Cetus. Just above it is a singular globular cluster named WLM-1. It is misidentified as a galaxy in some catalogs. 

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Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM) Dwarf Galaxy, PJ Mahany