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Andromeda III is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.44 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. And III is part of the Local group of galaxies and is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). And III was discovered by Sidney van den Bergh[2] on photographic plates taken in 1970 and 1971.[3]
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Results for AndIII. Retrieved on 2006-12-18.
- ^ a b McConnachie, A. W.; Irwin, M. J.; Ferguson, A. M. N.; Ibata, R. A.; Lewis, G. F.; Tanvir, N. (2005). "Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 356 (4): 979–997. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08514.x.
- ^ van den Bergh, Sydney (January 1972), “Search for Faint Companions to M31”, Astrophysical Journal 171: L31, <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972ApJ...171L..31V>
