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Star clusters, studied for three centuries, have in the last decade assumed ever-increasing importance for several reasons. The emphasis on the two types of stellar populations puts them in the spotlight since galactic clusters represent population I and globular clusters population II. The increasing development of theories of stellar evolution rests on star clusters, which furnish a group of stars presumably created from the same material at about the same time and hence offer a chance to study evolutionary tracks of stars. Stellar associations, too, groups of stars spread loosely over a large area, are a new and important field of investigation.
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Hogg, H.S. (1959). Star Clusters. In: Flügge, S. (eds) Astrophysik IV: Sternsysteme / Astrophysics IV: Stellar Systems. Handbuch der Physik / Encyclopedia of Physics, vol 11 / 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45932-0_4
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