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Astronomers Discover Faintest Known Milky Way Satellite


Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1 (UMa3/U1 for short) is the least luminous and lowest-mass Milky Way satellite ever discovered, and possibly one of the most dark matter-dominated systems known.

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