List of stellar streams


This is a list of stellar streams. A stellar stream is an association of stars orbiting a galaxy that was once a globular cluster or dwarf galaxy that has now been torn apart and stretched out along its orbit by tidal forces. A notable exception in the list about Milky Way streams given below is the Magellanic Stream, composed of gas.

Local Group streams

Milky Way streams

Andromeda Galaxy streams

Streams beyond the Local Group