Hubblecast 117 Light: Hubble & Gaia weigh the Milky Way

Measurements from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the ESA Gaia mission have been combined to improve he estimate of the mass of our home galaxy the Milky Way: 1.5 trillion solar masses.

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