Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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More space news and info at: coconutsciencelab.com - 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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Directed by: Bethany Downer
Editing: Nico Bartmann
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Footage and photos: ESO, P. Horálek, ESA, Hubble, NASA., L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, ATG Medialab, F. Ferraro, S. Brunier
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