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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2024 April 26   
      
                           Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Markus Horn   
      
      Explanation: In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy   
      to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation   
      Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this telescopic field of   
      view. A mere 79 light-years distant, Regulus is a hot, rapidly spinning   
      star that is known to be part of a multiple star system. Not quite lost   
      in the glare, the fuzzy patch just below Regulus is diffuse starlight   
      from small galaxy Leo I. Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy, a member   
      of the Local Group of galaxies dominated by our Milky Way Galaxy and   
      the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). About 800 thousand light-years away, Leo I   
      is thought to be the most distant of the known small satellite galaxies   
      orbiting the Milky Way. But dwarf galaxy Leo I has shown evidence of a   
      supermassive black hole at its center, comparable in mass to the black   
      hole at the center of the Milky Way.   
      
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