star systems

Suns with planets

Star systems are arrangements of one or more stars bound by gravity, often with orbiting planets, moons, and other celestial bodies.

Our solar system is a star system with one star; binary star systems have two stars orbiting each other.

In science fiction, star systems often serve as settings for interstellar travel and alien civilizations: The fleet jumped to a nearby star system.

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celestial structure scale

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Massive galaxy cluster formations

rogue planets · galaxies · intergalactic space · interstellar space · asteroids

stellar presence

star systemsrogue planets

Sunless interstellar orbs

interstellar space · empty space · black holes · cosmic dust · brown dwarfs

cosmic illumination/energy

star systemsblack holes

Regions of inescapable gravity

dark matter · dark energy · dead space

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