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Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal
The Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that was discovered in 1990 by Mike Irwin, M.T. Bridgeland, P.S. Bunclark and R.G. McMahon as the 8th satellite of the Milky Way 
, and is named fittingly, as it is part of Sextans constellation. It is also an elliptical galaxy, and displays a redshift because it is receding from the Milky Way at 224 km/s.
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