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gary
10-06-2020, 01:17 PM
Haley Wahl, a third year astronomy grad student at West Virginia University,
explains how using measurements of globular clusters in the halo of the
galaxy taken from the Gaia satellite, one can estimate a mass for the Milky Way.

'Astrobite' tutorial here, dated 9 June 2020 :-
https://aasnova.org/2020/06/09/how-do-you-weigh-a-galaxy/