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How many stars can be found in an average open cluster?

Answer 1

Theodore Angelis

#color(blue)"There are almost few thousand stars in an open cluster on an average"#

A collection of a thousand or slightly more stars combined is referred to as an open cluster.

Almost a thousand open clusters can be found in the Milky Way galaxy.

NGC 3572 is one of the examples.

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Answer 2

Cooper Ann

An average open cluster can have anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand stars, though the exact number can vary greatly.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.