Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

Andromeda XXXV is what astronomers term an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, which is exactly what it sounds like. These tiny, dim ...

This revealed that not only is Andromeda XXXV a satellite galaxy, but it is also small enough to change theories of how ...

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they appear that way." ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant happened not too long ago," Weisz said. "Our work has shown that low-mass ...

"I was astonished by the unexpected results because they opened a new view on the first phases of galaxy evolution." ...

The newfound galaxy, which lies about 2.4 ... the authors of the paper concluded that they hope to find many more dwarf galaxies in the halo of Andromeda. "The discovery of Pegasus VII complements ...

Astronomers can find many of them around the Milky Way ... lies about half a million light-years from the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, or about three times the width of M31 itself.

"We do find that there is a lot of diversity that ... the family of dwarf galaxies buzzing around a larger galaxy, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, can tell us a great deal about the larger galaxy's ...