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Open Clusters
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Typically a few thousand stars
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Not gravitationally bound
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Often contain young stars
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Concentrated in plane of Milky Way
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Distributed randomly around the circle
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of the Milky Way
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Globular Clusters
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Typically >hundred thousand stars
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Only contain older stars
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Are gravitationally bound
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Not strongly concentrated in plane of
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Milky Way
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Not randomly distributed around the circle
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of the Milky Way more towards
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Sagittarius
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