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of total darkness, a place where not a single star shone. “What’s happening there?” he
pointed.

“Let’s have a look, shall we?” said Eric. He pressed a button on a remote control and
the view through the window seemed to zoom towards the dark patch. As they got

closer, George realized that an enormous cloud was hovering in that spot. The window
kept moving forward until they were right inside the cloud itself, and George could see
it was made of gas and dust, just as Cosmos had said.

“What is it?” he asked. “And where is it?”

“It’s a huge cloud in outer space, much bigger than the ones in the sky,” replied Eric.
Made up of tiny, tiny particles which are all floating around inside it. There are so many
of these particles that the cloud is enormous. It’s so big that you could put millions and

millions of Earths inside it. From this cloud, many stars will be born.
Inside the cloud, George could see the particles moving around, some joining together

to form huge lumps of matter. These great lumps spun round and round, gathering
even more particles all the time. But as the particles joined together, the spinning lumps
weren’t getting bigger–instead, they seemed to be getting smaller, as though something
was squeezing them. It looked like someone was making gigantic dough balls in outer

What y
What you Think?ou Think?

Do you think George
could count the stars?
Why/why not ?

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