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star stream
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star stream
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(Astronomy) one of two main streams of stars that, because of the rotation of the Milky Way, appear to move in opposite directions, one towards Orion, the other towards Ara
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The new model shows a series of dense star streams, which are similar to the distribution of stars observed in our solar neighbourhood.
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To learn more about how galaxies form, astronomers need to determine not only how many star streams are present but also how bright they are and how many came from now-dead satellite galaxies, comments theorist Kathryn V.
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Because star streams are both faint and stretched out, only a sensitive light detector that views a large area of sky can observe them.
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