![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106091923im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field UCI Scientists Discover Minimum Mass for Galaxies
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August 27, 2008
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By analyzing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, UC Irvine scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe--10 million times the mass of the sun.
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Source University of California, Irvine
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