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to measure the velocities of stars for 33.5 hours for six nights so they could determine the galaxy's mass.The scientists then used the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the 8-m Gemini North telescope to reveal a halo of spherical clusters of stars around the galaxy's core. Following this observation, in August 2016, astronomers reported that this galaxy might be made almost entirely of dark matter.