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anima99 t1_jc2kn8g wrote

Reply to comment by iKillBugs4Work_AMA in Pillars of Creation - cropped them differently and rotated to show their "frame" by Rockclimber88

Each star doesn't have to be a "system," per se. They can simply be massive balls of gas with rocks/ice/metals around them.

They may form into planet-sized chunks, but it's difficult to determine given their distance. Not to mention some of these stars don't live long enough to form their own systems as they can sometimes collide or spin too fast and just lose form.

Those stars may also be explosions or supernovas, but this is the limit of what I have personally read about without Googling them again.

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iKillBugs4Work_AMA t1_jc2xp0a wrote

Got it. Thanks for the detailed explanation. I know what my next research rabbit hole will be. So much interesting stuff in a place that's so unknown to us.

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