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The space between the stars, which looks like an empty black void is filled with cold atoms of hydrogen. Stars form out of this supposed emptiness and eventually return to it.
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Lang, K. (2013). The Material Between the Stars. In: Essential Astrophysics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35963-7_11
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