Dwarf Galaxies Around the Milky Way

We were expecting from the simulations to see about 500 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. We've only seen about 12 and you're saying like I wonder if you could maybe even see them from our point of view Right like they're so small Maybe to us they just look like a little cluster of stars not necessarily a whole other galaxy It is complicated by the fact that we are inside the Milky Way Which makes it harder to see out of the Milky Way because there's so many stars and gas and dust in between.