star cluster
Example Sentences
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One light year is 5.88 trillion miles, so “there’s quite a difference between the two. Yet, there’s the planet, superimposed over the star cluster.”
From Seattle Times
“You’re looking at a planet, which is only many 10s of millions of miles away, and then you have a star cluster, which is close to 600 light years away,” Goss said.
From Seattle Times
Like the kite gliding across the sun, Mars will buzz the Beehive star cluster on June 1 and 2.
From Seattle Times
After overseeing three years of work that boosted the giant dish’s sensitivity and gave it a powerful new radar system, during a November 1974 opening ceremony Drake used the facility to transmit a radio signal toward M13: a star cluster more than 22,000 light-years away.
From Scientific American
The milking is done between mid-May and mid-July, with the appearance of the Pleiades star cluster in the night sky a traditional sign of its end.
From Reuters
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