Newly measured proper motions of a dozen stars in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy provide important insight into its distribution of dark matter. This result was made possible by combining measurements of star positions from Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia data.
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de Bruijne, J. Motions in Sculptor in three dimensions. Nat Astron 2, 116–117 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0350-7
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