open clusters
(old name: galactic clusters)
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hundreds - thousands of stars
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tens of thousands - hundreds of thousands of stars
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located in the plane or disk of our galaxy
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located in the halo of our galaxy
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younger than 10 billion years old
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older than 11 billion years old
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may contain gas and dust
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very little, if any, gas and dust
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