Why do older stars tend to be at larger heights above the midplane of the Milky Way's disk?
A) The Milky Way was thicker in the past.
B) The halo's gravity has pulled them upward.
C) They were born with large velocities in their molecular clouds.
D) They have had many scattering encounters with other stars.
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