UDF 2457 is a halo star — a faint M-class dwarf in the Fornax field. From Earth it lies eighteen kiloparsecs away, deep below the galactic plane and on the far side of the central bulge. The map below is a rough plot: a procedural Milky Way for scale, with the Sun and the star fixed at their catalogue positions.
Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom. The amber line is the line of sight — eighteen thousand parsecs of nothing in particular.
- Distance from Sun
- ≈ 18 kpc · 59,000 ly
- Galactic latitude
- b ≈ −54°
- Region
- Outer halo