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Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Leo. At about 820000 light-years distant it is a member of the Local Group of galaxies and is thought to be one of the most distant satellites of the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 1950 by Albert George Wilson on photographic plates of the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey which were taken with the 48-inch Schmidt camera at Palomar Observatory.
