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400-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery Solved: New Class of Ancient Star System Discovered Hiding in Our Galaxy


New simulations suggest globular clusters form in multiple ways and point to a mysterious new type of star system that may already lie hidden in the Milky Way. For centuries, astronomers have tried to explain how globular clusters, among the oldest and densest stellar systems in the universe, fir

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