Physical Information: The recessional velocity of PGC 28757 is only 45 km/sec, far too small in comparison to peculiar (non-Hubble expansion) velocities to be of any use in determining its distance. Redshift-independent distance estimates range from 8.5 to 32.5 million light years, with the most commonly accepted value being 11 to 12 million light years, as it is believed to be a satellite of approximately 12 million light year distant NGC 3031 (= M81). Given that and its apparent size of ? arcmin, the galaxy is about ? thousand light years across. It is believed that most of the stars in the dwarf galaxy (and the galaxy itself) were created as a result of a close encounter between M81, M82 and NGC 3077 between 200 and 300 million years ago. That interaction tore some one of the older stars from one or more of the galaxies and triggered a wave of intense star formation that resulted in most of the stars now visible in PGC 28757, and is still continuing in the region between it and M81 at a slower rate, as evidenced by a "bluish fuzz" in the region near the two galaxies, which consists of newly formed stars, but too few of them to be easily imaged.

Physical Information: Sextans B is a dwarf irregular galaxy, located on the outer fringe of the Local Group of galaxies, which means it may be a part of the Local Group, or merely a "field" galaxy that just happens to be near us. It has a mass of about 200 million Solar masses, most of which (as in the case of most galaxies) is in the form of "dark matter". Despite its small size, it has several large regions of rapid star formation, and several planetary nebulae, which are the gaseous envelopes ejected by old, dying stars (it is one of the smallest galaxies known to have several planetary nebulae).
 One interesting difference between irregular galaxies such as Sextans B and spiral galaxies such as our own is that in irregular galaxies, very little of the gas and dust originally present has been turned into stars, so that massive clusters of stars (such as globular clusters) can still form; whereas in our own galaxy, most of the gas and dust has been turned into stars, and only smaller clusters of stars are now forming. As a result, in our galaxy, globular clusters (large, globe-shaped clusters containing tens of thousand to several million stars) are typically about 12 billion years old; while in Sextans B, a dwarf globular cluster has been found to be only about 2 billion years old.
 Based on a recessional velocity relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation of 645 km/sec (and H₀ = 70 km/sec/Mpc), Sextans B is about 30 million light years away, in poor agreement with redshift-independent distance estimates of about 4 to 7 million light years, with a median estimate of about 4.5 to 4.9 million light years (the reason for the poor agreement is that for close galaxies, "peculiar velocities" (random motions relative to their neighbors) can make the "Hubble Flow" distance estimate completely useless, as in this case). Using an estimated distance of about 4.7 million light years and its apparent size of about 6.5 by 4.9 arcmin (from the images below), Sextans B is about 9 thousand light years across, making it truly a "dwarf" galaxy.