Using the largest dataset yet, they estimated our galaxy has a mass of roughly 805 billion solar masses.
A team of scientists from China used data from the European Space Agency's GAIA observatory to estimate the mass of the Milky Way.
Scientists from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences detailed the methodology behind their new estimation in a paper published in. The authors used a larger dataset — consisting of 260,000 stars — than had ever been used for a study of this type. Using their large dataset, the scientists conducted a survey of the Milky Way and measured its rotation curve. The rotation curve refers to the orbital speed of an astronomical object in relation to its radial distance from the galaxy's center. They also aimed to account for dark matter in their calculations. In a
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