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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A loose, irregular grouping of stars that originated from a single nebula located in the disk of a spiral galaxy.
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- noun astronomy a more or less
irregular star cluster containing tens to thousands ofstars
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