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What observational evidence supports the conclusion that most of the mass of the milky way is in the form of dark matter?.

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Answer: In a talk given in 1884, Lord Kelvin estimated the number of dark bodies in the Milky Way from the observed velocity dispersion of the stars orbiting around the center of the galaxy. By using these measurements, he estimated the mass of the galaxy, which he determined is different from the mass of visible stars.

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