A star cluster is a group of stars held together by self-gravitation. Two main types of star clusters can be distinguished: globular clusters, tight groups...
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Pleiades (redirect from Pleiades (star cluster))
known as Seven Sisters and Messier 45 (M45), is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus...
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Collinder 50, or Melotte 25) is the nearest open cluster and one of the best-studied star clusters. Located about 153 light-years (47 parsecs) away from...
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Centauri, was observed in antiquity and long thought to be a star, recognition of the clusters' true nature came with the advent of telescopes in the 17th...
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An open cluster is a type of star cluster made of tens to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the...
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Jewel Box as a star cluster was first found by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille while doing astrometric observations for his 1751–1752 southern star catalogue Cœlum...
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Coma Star Cluster (also known as Melotte 111 or Collinder 256) is a nearby open cluster located in the constellation Coma Berenices. The cluster contains...
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There are several astronomical catalogues referred to as Nebulae and Star Clusters. A Nebula is a cloud of dust and gas inside a galaxy. Nebulae become...
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star clusters, ordered by diameter in light years, above the size of 50 light years in diameter. This list includes globular clusters, open clusters,...
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structure, such as a star cluster or a galaxy. The word "star" ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "h₂stḗr" also meaning star, but further analyzable...
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A super star cluster (SSC) is a very massive young open cluster that is thought to be the precursor of a globular cluster. These clusters called "super"...
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The Beehive Cluster (also known as Praesepe (Latin for "manger", "cot" or "crib"), M44, NGC 2632, or Cr 189), is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer...
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catalogue of open clusters. The status of this group as a star cluster has changed in recent years. The group was considered to be a cluster for most of the...
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Lists of astronomical objects (section Star clusters)
by area List of IAU designated constellations List of open clusters List of globular clusters List of stellar streams List of nearby stellar associations...
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Messier 13 (redirect from Hercules Globular Cluster)
called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, the Hercules Globular Cluster, or the Great Hercules Cluster), is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand...
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Messier 93 (redirect from Open cluster M93)
dull night, but [a four-inch refractor] shows it as a typical star-studded galactic cluster. It has a Trumpler class of I 3 r, indicating it is strongly...
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A nuclear star cluster (NSC) or compact stellar nucleus (sometimes called young stellar nucleus) is a star cluster with high density and high luminosity...
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Jewel box (section Star cluster)
Sullivan Jewel Box Park, a type of baseball park Jewel Box (star cluster) (NGC 4755), a star cluster in Crux "Jewel Box", a track on Jeff Buckley's Sketches...
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for open clusters. Trumpler catalogue, the catalogue of open clusters that he compiled. Trumpler's classification method for open star clusters is still...
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Messier object (redirect from Messier Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters)
des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles [fr] (Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters). Because Messier was interested only in finding comets, he created...
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Coma Berenices (section Coma Star Cluster)
formed by the Coma Star Cluster. The constellation's brightest star is Beta Comae Berenices, a 4.2-magnitude main sequence star similar to the Sun. Coma...
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Stellar age estimation (redirect from Star age)
the age of a star is. These methods include stellar evolutionary models, membership in a given star cluster or system, fitting the star with the standard...
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List of proper names of stars (redirect from List of traditional star names)
approval comes mostly from its Working Group on Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of May 2025, the list...
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conclusion. Gaia BH3 was found to be part of a disrupted star cluster of low mass and this star cluster is today a halo stellar stream, called ED-2. This stellar...
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Nebula (redirect from Nebulous star)
cataloged the Omicron Velorum star cluster as a "nebulous star" and other nebulous objects, such as Brocchi's Cluster. The supernovas that created the...
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single star. A large group of stars bound by gravitation is generally called a star cluster or galaxy, although, broadly speaking, they are also star systems...
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Pascale, M.; Dai, L. (2024). "A Young Super Star Cluster Powering a Nebula of Retained Massive Star Ejecta". Astrophysical Journal. 976 (2): 24. arXiv:2404...
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lists of the most massive known star clusters in solar masses (M☉) and sorted in descending order. Globular cluster masses can be determined by observing...
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Andromeda Galaxy (section Globular clusters)
Richard; Yang, Yanbin; et al. (2006). "A 'super' star cluster grown old: the most massive star cluster in the Local Group". Monthly Notices of the Royal...
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