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Messier Object 110 |
 | | Messier 110 (M110, NGC 205) is the second brighter satellite galaxy of the Andromeda galaxy M31, together with M32, and thus a member of the Local Group. |
 | | The small elliptical galaxy M110 is at about the same distance as the Andromeda galaxy M31, about 2.9 million light years, as confirmed by Walter Baade in 1944, when he resolved it into stars (Baade 1944). |
 | | M110 is now often classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy, not a generic elliptical one (this would make it the first ever known dwarf spheroid, of course). |
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