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   Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 08:22:07 JST Corey S Powell

   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