Pisces Overdensity

The Pisces Overdensity is a clump of stars in the Milky Way's halo, which may be a disrupted dwarf spheroidal galaxy.

[5] It is situated in the Pisces constellation and was discovered in 2009 by analysis of distribution of RR Lyrae stars in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's data.

[2] The galaxy is located at the distance of about 80 kpc from the Sun and moves towards it with a speed of about 75 km/s.

[2] However it has a large size of about several degrees (around 1 kpc) and may be in a transitional phase between a gravitationally bound galaxy and completely unbound system.

[4] The Pisces Overdensity is located near the plane, where the Magellanic Clouds lie.