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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 of stars

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