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dwarf spheroidal galaxy

small, low-luminosity galaxies with very little dust and an older stellar population
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dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Summary

dwarf spheroidal galaxy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (76 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's subclass of is recorded as dwarf galaxy[2].
  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's subclass of is recorded as lenticular galaxy[3].
  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03xgmj[4].
  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dwarf spheroidal galaxies[5].
  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03891765n[6].
  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as dwarf-spheroidal-galaxies[7].
  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 420[8].
  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 438757[9].
  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C438757[10].
  • dwarf spheroidal galaxy's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as physics-and-astronomy/dwarf-spheroidal-galaxies[11].

Why It Matters

dwarf spheroidal galaxy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (76 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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