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
As the Moon rises it will form a triangle with the Pleiades star cluster and the bright star Aldebaran.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
This first result focuses on the protoplanetary disk termed XUE 1, which is located in the star cluster Pismis 24.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023
June 2: Mars will pass directly through the Beehive star cluster, an easy “binoculars object” that contains dozens or even hundreds of visible stars.
From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2023
So too there is no reason to suppose that a star cluster will ever break up into isolated stars such as those whose relation to each other is shown in Fig. 122.
From A Text-Book of Astronomy by Comstock, George C.