Astronomers just found the smallest galaxy ever

Astronomers just found the smallest galaxy ever

When it comes to the galaxies in the Universe, most of us think about the Milky Way and galaxies similar to it. After all, it is our galactic home, containing hundreds of billions of stars and spanning more than 100,000 light-years across. It’s an interesting fact that galaxies comparable in size to the Milky Way (as well as larger ones) hold the majority of stars present within the Universe today, but that they only represent about ~1% of all g…