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    KiDS in the sky: New Stellar system discovered by the Kilo-Degree Survey

    November 27, 2023, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    KiDS in the sky: new stellar system discovered by the Kilo-Degree Survey
    Color-magnitude diagram of stars located within 5′ from the newfound stellar overdensity center. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.06037

    Astronomers have discovered a new stellar system in the outskirts of the Milky Way as part of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS). The newfound system, named Sextans II, is most likely an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy. The finding is reported in a paper published November 10 on the pre-print server arXiv.

    KiDS is an extensive multi-band photometric survey utilizing the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Since 2011, the survey has been mapping 1,350 square degrees of the night sky in four broad-band filters (u, g, r, i)...

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