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Galaxies form from the inside out

“Trying to understand the behaviour of systems hundreds of millions of lightyears away requires some ingenuity”

Galaxies are funny beasts. They should be simple systems, and yet answering even basic questions about their formation ties astronomers in knots. Sure, their scale is breathtaking – the Milky Way’s few hundred million stars are nothing to be sniffed at – but

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