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a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant

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An open cluster is a group of stars that are loosely bound together by gravity. These clusters typically contain hundreds to thousands of stars and are found in the disk of a galaxy, like our Milky Way. Open clusters are younger than globular clusters and often form from the same molecular cloud.

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