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==Old Universe View==

==Old Universe View==

Old-Earth creationists and evolutionist believe that open clusters are initially formed when a large molecular cloud collapses due to nearby gravitational interactions or [[supernova]].  They believe that as the cloud collapses, it will fragment into increasingly smaller parts; they think that some of these fragments of gas and material that eventually result [[stellar evolution|in the creation of new stars]].  Eventually, according to these theories, the hottest and most massive of these stars drive away the remaining gasses through their stellar winds and radiation and star formation ceases.<ref>http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991MNRAS.249...76B</ref>  

Those who believe the Universe is millions or billions of years old often also believe that open clusters are initially formed when a large molecular cloud collapses due to nearby gravitational interactions or [[supernova]].  They believe that as the cloud collapses, it will fragment into increasingly smaller parts; they think that some of these fragments of gas and material that eventually result [[stellar evolution|in the creation of new stars]].  Eventually, according to these theories, the hottest and most massive of these stars drive away the remaining gasses through their stellar winds and radiation and star formation ceases.<ref>http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991MNRAS.249...76B</ref>  

As an open cluster drifts through space, evolutionists believe, the individual stars of the loosely bound cluster slowly begin to drift away due to gravitational interactions with the rest of the galaxy.  They believe that after few hundred million years the cluster would lose most of the member stars as individual stars orbiting the core of a [[galaxy]], connected only by their similar orbits in a disassociated group.<ref>http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998PASP..110.1117D</ref>

As an open cluster drifts through space, they believe, the individual stars of the loosely bound cluster slowly begin to drift away due to gravitational interactions with the rest of the galaxy.  They believe that after few hundred million years the cluster would lose most of the member stars as individual stars orbiting the core of a [[galaxy]], connected only by their similar orbits in a disassociated group.<ref>http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998PASP..110.1117D</ref>

[[Category:Astronomy]]

[[Category:Astronomy]]