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Well I am revising hard, yeah right - I am trying to. I am currently finding my galactic dynamics course very difficult but I am making progress. I actually came across something quite interesting that has been recently discovered - miniature galaxies! Well Ultra-compact dwarfs (UCDs). I find this quite interesting cause it appears that there are a lot of theme out there but have been overlooked since they at first look very similar to a star. In fact their masses are comparable to other dwarf galaxies but they are remarkably small - only 120 light years across.

More on this subject can be found at: http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/sxp/ucd.html and in this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301457