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Sunday, 17 March 2019

Milky Way's mass mostly made up of dark matter

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, a team of international scientists determined the Milky Way weighs in at about 1.5 trillion solar masses.

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