article_snippet: Move the slider below to see an image of the southern sky before and after the new dwarf galaxies are added .
article_snippet: Astronomers are the first to be discovered orbiting our galaxy in more than a decade.
article_snippet: an image of the southern sky shows the previously known Magellanic Clouds with six of the nine newly discovered dwarf galaxies above the Paranal Observatory in Chile .
article_snippet: an image of the southern sky was made by a team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge using data from the Dark Energy Survey, a five-year project to photograph the southern sky in extreme detail.
article_snippet: nine new dwarf galaxies were spotted in the night sky in the southern hemisphere, near the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud, which are the largest dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way's orbit.
article_snippet: ‘The discovery of so many satellites in such a small area of the sky was completely unexpected,' said Dr Sergey Koposov of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, the study’s lead author.
article_snippet: Finding such a large group of satellites near the Magellanic Clouds was surprising, though, as earlier surveys of the southern sky found very little, so we were not expecting to stumble on such treasure.
article_snippet: The newly discovered objects are seen here in an artist's impression below the plane of our galaxy .
article_snippet: Their origins remain a bit of a mystery, though; Their may have once orbited the Magellanic Clouds until Their were thrown out.
article_snippet: The Magellanic Clouds and a stream of neutral hydrogen are shown in the illustration here, along with the newly discovered dwarf galaxies. 
article_snippet: the newly discovered dwarf galaxies origins remain a bit of a mystery, though; the newly discovered dwarf galaxies may have once orbited The Magellanic Clouds until the newly discovered dwarf galaxies were thrown out .
highlights_snippet: University of Cambridge astronomers are the first to be discovered orbiting the Milky Way in a decade since dozens were found in 2005 and 2006 .
  