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A U-Michigan led team of researchers has discovered Andromeda XXXV, the smallest and faintest known galaxy orbiting Andromeda, the Milky Way's major galactic neighbor. The find challenges past theories on evolution and star formation in satellite galaxies.


A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we thought we had learned from our own galaxy.

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