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Stellar dynamics is the branch of astrophysics which describes in a statistical way the collective motions of stars subject to their mutual gravity. The essential difference from celestial mechanics is that each star contributes more or less equally to the total gravitational field whereas in celestial mechanics the pull of a massive body dominates any satellite orbits.

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