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across th e nlght sky, nfact, material in the uni-verse is clumped togetherin great, uneven masses.Our own Sun, I-pie, is but o n e ionothers bound f: Yto the Milky Way galaxy.Billions of other plax ie sar e scattered throughoutspace, and many in turnar e grouped rn greatclusters an d superclus.ters each containing mwhere from a half doze
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