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Star clusters: Anything but simple

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The heated debate on the importance of stellar rotation and age spreads in massive star clusters has just become hotter by throwing stellar variability into the mix.

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Figure 1: Heart of brightness.

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  1. Richard de Grijs is at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Department of Astronomy, Peking University, Yi He Yuan Lu 5, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100871, China. He is also at the International Space Science Institute-Beijing, No.1 Nanertiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China,

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de Grijs, R. Star clusters: Anything but simple. Nat Astron 1, 0011 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-016-0011

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