FastSaying

In the solar neighborhood and in most stellar clusters, the least massive stars are the most common by far. Our observations with [the Very Large Telescope in Chile] show this is not the case for Messier 12.

Related Quotes

Say you see 25,000 massive stars, you infer that there will be 100,000 lighter ones, even if you don't see them.
— Guido de Marchi
Will
The laws of nature are simply such that in a molecular cloud there are just a few big clumps and quite many more smaller clumps.
— Guido de Marchi
Nature
It tells us that the orbit [for the cluster] we had before was simply wrong.
— Guido de Marchi
US
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
— Thomas Carlyle
CrashKillSolar
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
— Galileo Galilei
AstronomyClustersInnumerable