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.

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.

Say you see 25,000 massive stars, you infer that there will be 100,000 lighter ones, even if you don't see them.

It tells us that the orbit [for the cluster] we had before was simply wrong.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful