Galaxies contain fewer stars than predicted. The discovery of a massive galactic outflow of molecular gas in a compact galaxy, which forms stars 100 times faster than the Milky Way, may help to explain why. See Letter p.68
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Hopkins, P. Stars fight back. Nature 516, 44–45 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/516044a
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