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What can we learn from dwarf galaxies?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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I feel like if you have a thousand stars, maybe you shouldn't be called the galaxy You know that's such a That's more like a I don't know like a star neighborhood or something star clump associated stars So that's the bias right that's us looking at our neighborhood and observing other galaxies But something we learn as we develop better tools is to see fainter stuff. And so we've been seeing the biggest brightest most exciting galaxies but there's a whole spectrum of other kind of stuff out there whether you want to call it a galaxy or mini galaxy or galaxy No or dwarf galaxy, you know, that's just the name.

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