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'Comet' Tail of Speeding Star Cluster Solves 100-Year-Old Cosmic Puzzle


When my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an unexpected celestial laboratory in Terzan 5, a dense star cluster currently plunging through our galaxy at breakneck speed.

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