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Stars, like our Sun, are massive luminous balls of plasma held together by their own gravity, while galaxies are made of billions of stars, like our Sun True False
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Stars, like our Sun, are massive luminous balls of plasma held together by their own gravity, while galaxies are made of billions of stars, like our Sun True False
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Galaxies are comprised of groups of stars circling a common gravitational point (which is theorized in the Milky Ways case to be a black hole). The answer is True.
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