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The Aquarius Dwarf galaxy is a dwarf galaxy and an irregular galaxy that was first catalogued in 1959 by the DDO survey. Its most distinctive characteristic is that it is one of the few galaxies known to display a blueshift as it is traveling towards the Milky Way at 137 km/s. Aquarius dwarf is also part of the Aquarius constellation.Lee et al. 1999 firmly established AqrDIG as a member of the Local Group and derived a distance using the tip of the red giant branch of 950 ± 50 kpc.
