The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting satellite galaxies is quite unusual, a new 12-year study of other galaxies in the local universe has found.

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If this concentration of satellites is consistent around the Milky Way, it would mean that there could be at least 500 satellite galaxies around the Milky Way, researchers wrote in a statement.

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The Milky Way is known to be orbited by dozens of smaller, gravitationally-bound galaxies or star clusters. Although the list of identified satellites is relatively long, astronomers believe that ...

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A recent census, published in 2020 in The Astrophysical Journal, estimated that there were about 60 satellites orbiting the Milky Way within a distance of 1.4 million light-years.

When Wechsler and her colleagues examined 378 small satellite galaxies that orbit the 101 much larger galaxies like the Milky Way, they found that half the Milky Way's satellites were no longer ...

The Milky Way’s satellites seem to be arranged in an implausibly thin plane piercing through the galaxy and, oddly, they are also circling in a coherent and long-lived disk.

Astronomers have found two of the Milky Way's missing satellite galaxies, a step toward earning a better understanding of dark matter.

The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting satellite galaxies is quite unusual, a new 12-year study of other galaxies in the local universe has found.