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Chile’s Very Large Telescope reveals the productive antics of sister stars

When stars are born, most of the time they arrive in the universe as twins. In the first stage of stellar creation, a large cloud of gas and dust collapses due to gravity, often breaking into pieces. If each piece collapses again, multiple stars will be born from the same gas cloud. These nascent suns …

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