star cluster

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Researchers were able to narrow the signal's origin to a region only 45 light-years across, which is smaller than the typical size of a star cluster.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

Mars will buzz the Beehive star cluster on Dec. 5.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

To locate this newfound brown dwarf, Luhman and his colleague, Catarina Alves de Oliveira, chose to study the star cluster IC 348, located about 1,000 light-years away in the Perseus star-forming region.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

Embedded in the nebula's glowing gas, the star cluster Collinder 249 is visible.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2023

Turner of Oxford; and the star cluster M.35 Geminorum, a fine and bright, but loose, cluster, with very little central condensation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various