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We just found 7000 stars we never detected before within JUST 300 light years of us. Given that, how do we KNOW that we have accurately determined the amount of normal matter in the universe?? Could some of the mass we tag as dark matter just be stars too faint to see?

by /u/kjpmi in /r/askscience

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