How small can a galaxy be?
Astronomers are now finding small-fry galaxies that contain fewer than a million, possibly as few as a thousand, stars.
Until recently, these very faint, dwarf galaxies in the halo of the Milky Way have eluded discovery.
Read about this exciting new result by a team including Ed Olszewski, Jill Bechtold & Tim Pickering at UA News.org.
