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Crater 2 Dwarf
Crater
2
is a
low-surface-brightness
dwarf
satellite galaxy
of the
Milky Way
, located
approximately
380,000
ly
from
Earth
. Crater 2 was
identified
in
imaging
data
from the
VST ATLAS survey
.
The
galaxy
has a
half-light radius
of
∼
, making it the
fourth
largest
satellite of the Milky Way
. It has an
angular size
about
double
of that of
the moon
.