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In this chapter, we concern ourselves with concentrations of stars whose structure can be recognized in part with the naked eye, in part only on suitable telescopic images: the globular star clusters, in which the stars appear to be clustered together like the bees in a swarm, the less “concentrated” open star clusters, and the stellar associations. As we have pointed out in the historical introduction to Part IV, investigations of the star clusters have contributed in important ways both to our knowledge of the structure of our Milky Way Galaxy as well as to understanding of stellar structure and evolution, the latter through study of their color—magnitude diagrams.
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Unsöld, A., Baschek, B. (2002). Star Clusters. In: The New Cosmos. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04356-1_9
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