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February 21, 2013

A Simple View Of Gravity Does Not Fully Explain The Distribution Of Stars In Crowded Clusters
San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2013
Gravity remains the dominant force on large astronomical scales, but when it comes to stars in young star clusters the dynamics in these crowded environments cannot be simply explained by the pull of gravity. After analyzing Hubble Space Telescope images of star cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, researchers at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University in Beijing found more binary star systems toward the periphe ... read more

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