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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024o′pen clus′ter, [Astron.]- Astronomya comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation;
usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies. Also, galactic cluster. Cf. globular cluster, stellar association. |