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==References== {{Reflist|30em|refs= <ref name=Friel>{{cite journal | author=Friel, Eileen D.|author-link=Eileen Friel | title=The Old Open Clusters Of The Milky Way | journal=[[Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics]] | date=1995 | volume=33 | pages=381β414 | bibcode=1995ARA&A..33..381F | doi=10.1146/annurev.aa.33.090195.002121 }}</ref> <ref name=Karttunen_et_al_03>{{cite book | author=Karttunen, Hannu |display-authors=etal | title=Fundamental astronomy | page=321 | series=Physics and Astronomy Online Library | edition=4th | publisher=Springer | date=2003 | isbn=3-540-00179-4 }}</ref> <ref name=payne-gaposchkin79>{{cite book | author=Payne-Gaposchkin, C. | title=Stars and clusters | location=Cambridge, Mass. | publisher=Harvard University Press | date=1979 | isbn=0-674-83440-2 | bibcode=1979stcl.book.....P | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/starsclusters00gapo }}</ref> <ref name=apj62>A good example of this is [[NGC 2244]], in the [[Rosette Nebula]]. See also {{cite journal | author=Johnson, Harold L. | title=The Galactic Cluster, NGC 2244 | journal=Astrophysical Journal |date=November 1962 | volume=136 | page=1135 | bibcode=1962ApJ...136.1135J | doi=10.1086/147466 | doi-access= }}</ref> <ref name=basu03>{{cite book | first=Baidyanath | last=Basu | date=2003 | title=An Introduction to Astrophysics | page=218 | publisher=PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. | isbn=81-203-1121-3 }}</ref> <ref name=seds>{{cite web | author=Frommert, Hartmut | author2=Kronberg, Christine | date=August 27, 2007 | title=Open Star Clusters | work=SEDS | publisher=University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Lab | url=http://www.seds.org/messier/open.html | access-date=2009-01-02 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222064251/http://seds.org/messier/open.html | archive-date=December 22, 2008 }}</ref> <ref name=bok81>{{cite book | author=Bok, Bart J. | author2=Bok, Priscilla F. | date=1981 | title=The Milky Way | url=https://archive.org/details/milkyway0000bokb | url-access=registration | edition=5th | page=[https://archive.org/details/milkyway0000bokb/page/136 136] | series=Harvard books on astronomy | publisher=Harvard University Press | isbn=0-674-57503-2 }}</ref> <ref name=pt57>{{cite journal | last=Michell | first=J. | date=1767 | title=An Inquiry into the probable Parallax, and Magnitude, of the Fixed Stars, from the Quantity of Light which they afford us, and the particular Circumstances of their Situation | journal=Philosophical Transactions | volume=57 | pages=234β264 | bibcode=1767RSPT...57..234M | doi=10.1098/rstl.1767.0028 | doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=jones91>{{cite book | first=Kenneth Glyn | last=Jones | date=1991 | title=Messier's nebulae and star clusters | pages=6β7 | issue=2 | series=Practical astronomy handbook | edition=2nd | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=0-521-37079-5 }}</ref> <ref name=neata09>{{cite web | first=Emil | last=Neata | title=Open Star Clusters: Information and Observations | work=Night Sky Info | url=http://www.nightskyinfo.com/open_clusters/ | access-date=2009-01-02 }}</ref> <ref name=apj480>{{cite journal | author=Elmegreen, Bruce G. | author2=Efremov, Yuri N. | title=A Universal Formation Mechanism for Open and Globular Clusters in Turbulent Gas | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=480 | issue=1 | pages=235β245 | date=1997 | doi=10.1086/303966| bibcode=1997ApJ...480..235E| doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=mnras249>{{cite journal | date=1991 | title=Formation and evolutionary properties of the Galactic open cluster system | journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] | volume=249 | pages=76β83 | bibcode= 1991MNRAS.249...76B | author=Battinelli, P. | author2=Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R. | doi=10.1093/mnras/249.1.76| doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=kroupa05>{{cite conference | last=Kroupa | first=P. | publication-date=2005 | title=The Fundamental Building Blocks of Galaxies | book-title=Proceedings of the Gaia Symposium "The Three-Dimensional Universe with Gaia (ESA SP-576) | location=Observatoire de Paris-Meudon | date=October 4β7, 2004 | editor=C. 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