star-clusters

It resembled (more nearly than anything else to which I can compare it) one of the large irregular nebulous star-clusters seen through a good telescope, with the additional attraction of ever-changing form and dancing motion.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The Rim Star was the biggest ship in several star-clusters, and he could spot her enormous, clumsy bulk by the starlight, half a mile away across the tarmac.

The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964

In some parts of the galaxy this practically assured its ability to reach a colonized world - in the denser star-clusters especially.

The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964

They must have searched the star-clusters as we have searched the planets.

Expedition to Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1953

Ascending higher in the scale of celestial architecture, we have multiple stars forming systems still more elaborate and complex, into the structure of which numerous stars enter, and they, as they increase in number, gradually merge into star-clusters.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

The tubercles are short, crowded, and hidden under the star-clusters of reddish-yellow spines.

Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation W. Watson

With it I was able to observe the moon and Jupiter's satellites, and some of the larger star-clusters; but, of course, very imperfectly.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

Ahead of him there was nothing reachable except a few star-clusters.

Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

Behind the flying vessel the First Galaxy was a tiny, brightly-shining lens, so far away that such minutiae as individual solar systems were invisible; so distant that even the gigantic masses of its accompanying globular star-clusters were merged indistinguishably into its sharply lenticular shape.

Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

He thought that that was because of the sheer beauty of it, the gaunt, silver deaths-head of the Moon forever turning beneath, the still and solemn glory of the undimmed stars, the filamentaries stretched across the distant star-clusters like shining veils, the quietness, the peace.

The Stars, My Brothers Edmond Hamilton 1940