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The "smallest known galaxy" sounds like an oxymoron (akin to the old joke, "jumbo shrimp").
But the discovery of Andromeda XXXV, just one-millionth the size of our Milky Way, offers serious clues about how coherent structures form & survive in a chaotic universe.
https://news.umich.edu/small-faint-and-unexpected-in-a-lot-of-different-ways-u-m-astronomers-make-galactic-discovery/ #science #space #nature