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
On July 30, the crescent moon will float among shining Jupiter, red Mars, the bright star Aldebaran and the pretty Pleiades star cluster before sunrise.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024
The nuclear star cluster has mainly been seen, quite rightly, as a very ancient part of the galaxy.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 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