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  1. starburst: Small regions in galaxies
  2. with unusually large rates of star
  3. formation. Starbursts are believed to
  4. be short-lived events; the observed
  5. rates of star formation would exhaust
  6. all the available gas in a galaxy over a
  7. very short time compared with the
  8. age of the galaxy. Astronomers
  9. believe that gravitational interactions
  10. between galaxies trigger starbursts.