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_factoryesterday at 9:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Poorly phrased. The most recent stars are on the edges. The inner stars were first, hence the “working outwards”.


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kakaciktoday at 9:12 AM

But why? Star forms when enough hydrogen (or maybe also helium) clusters together with gravity to spark fusion IIRC. The center of Milky way ain't some ultra dense place where stars are just trillions of kms from each other to support somehow earlier star formation.

Or did ie dark matter/energy somehow coalesce on the outer edge later? Milky way is supposed to be very old place, almost as old as universe itself so one would expect more homogeneous distribution, at least as a layperson.

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