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When we think about for a few moments, stars are pretty weird things at the best of times! A ball of compressed gas heated to fierce temperatures by a continuously exploding thermonuclear bomb on steroids at its core may seem quite an odd sort of thing to have as the basic unit of the cosmos. Yet, if such objects did not exist, the cosmos would be plunged into an eternal night of utter lifelessness. Stars may seem a bit weird, but without them, the universe would be a pretty dull place. Not that there would be anyone here to complain about it!
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Seargent, D.A.J. (2011). Strange Stars and Star-Like Objects. In: Weird Astronomy. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6424-3_5
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