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They orbit as stars would in any other halo. It is gravity that causes everything to orbit and "spin around" Stars can also orbit around other stars called a binary orbit.

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Q: How do stars in the galactic halo orbit?
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Where in space would you look for a globular cluster?

In the Milky Way galactic halo, orbiting the galactic center in a long elliptical orbit around the galactic center


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What do halo stars do differently from disk stars?

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