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Stars in globular clusters pack snugly together. Messier 28, for example, crams about 50,000 stars into a region just 60 light-years (350 trillion miles) across. The Sun only has about 400 known stellar neighbors that close. #MondayMotivation
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imagine how the night sky must look like there :blobcataww:
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What keeps them from collapsing together from gravity? Were the stars formed from an old expanding supernova?

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