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There are many different kinds of star clusters. Open clusters contain hundreds or thousands of stars held together by gravity. They're young, and evaporate over time, their stars let loose to roam space freely. Globular clusters, on the other hand, are larger, have hundreds of thousands of stars, and are more spherical. They're very old, a significant fraction of the age of the Universe itself, and that means their stars have less heavy elements in them, are redder, and probably don't have planets (though we're not really sure). [10:35]
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