Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Fornax (For)  ·  Contains:  Fornax Dwarf Cluster 3  ·  NGC 1049
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this time we change the type of target to offer you a dwarf galaxy and therefore diffuses with four of its six globular clusters.The position of the clusters is listed in the "version C" image on astrobin.The Fornax Dwarf galaxy MCG-06-07-001The Fornax dwarf galaxy is one of the Milky Way’s neighbouring dwarf galaxies.The Fornax Dwarf galaxy (aka MCG-06-07-001, PCG10093) is located in the constellation Fornax. The galaxy is an ellipsoidally shaped swarm of old stars, which formed about the same time as the galaxy and are similar to those in globular clusters. This galaxy is a satellite of our Milky Way, approximately 500,000 light years distant and contains six globular clusters; the largest, NGC 1049, was discovered before the galaxy itself. The galaxy is also receding from the Milky Way at 53 km/s. Due to the galaxy's low surface brightness and large extension, it is a difficult target for visual observation at mag 9 with the brightest stars around 19th magnitudeObservations of six globular clusters — large balls of stars that orbit the centres of galaxies — found in Fornax show they are very similar to those found in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The finding is at odds with leading theories on how these clusters form — in these theories, globular clusters should be nestled among large quantities of old stars — and so the mystery of how these objects came to exist deepens.In the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, globular clusters preserve their diffuse spatial distribution despite the fact that the clusters' orbital decay timescale is much shorter than the estimated age of the host galaxy. We propose that this paradox may be resolved if (1) Fornax contains black holes with a sizeable fraction of the mass of these clusters or if (2) it is currently undergoing tidal disruption. For the black hole scenario, a centrally peaked velocity-dispersion distribution is anticipated but has not been observationally confirmed. The second scenario requires Fornax to have lost a significant fraction of its original mass. The second scenario is possible if the mass of the Galactic dark matter is ~1012 M☉ out to the present distance of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy or if Fornax is near its apogalacticon (The point in the orbit of a star at which it is furthest from the centre of its local galaxy) and has an orbit similar to that of the Large Magellanic CloudUsing the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists derived a color-magnitude diagram for Fornax 4, a globular cluster within this galaxy. Unlike the globular clusters Fornax 1, 2, 3, and 5, which have horizontal branches across a wide range of colors and include RR Lyrae variables, Fornax 4 is found to have only red in its horizontal branch. Fornax 4 is also ~3 Gyr younger than the other globular clusters. The color-magnitude diagram of Fornax 4 has a strong similarity to "young" galactic globular Ruprecht 106.[6]It is not known why spheroidals allow the formation of globular clusters like Fornax 4 and Terzan 7 (of Sagittarius dwarf) long after globular clusters ceased to form in the main body of the Galactic halo. Another possibility is that "young" globular clusters of the outer halo like Ruprecht 106 were originally formed in now defunct dwarf spheroidals.[7]

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