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A brown dwarf is a pseudostar; a body of gas not massive enough for the gravitational pressure in its core to ignite the hydrog… Star Cluster , Star clusters are groups of stars that occur close to each other in space (and, thus, are gravitationally bound to one another), appear to have rough… Hertzsprung-russell Diagram , Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
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