How did Andromeda’s dwarf galaxies form? Hubble Telescope finds more questions than answers

A full image of the dwarf galaxies seen by Hubble; Andromeda is in the center. On the right, some of the dwarf galaxies are seen in boxouts and are enlarged for clarity.

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough images to get a full family portrait of Andromeda’s brightest satellites. The 36 dwarf galaxies are varied in their properties, and … Read more