open cluster

English - Turkish

Definition of open cluster in English Turkish dictionary: (Tekstil) Galaktik küme, açık küme; açık küme

English - English

Definition of open cluster in English English dictionary: a more or less irregular star cluster containing tens to thousands of stars; (Tekstil) A loose, irregular grouping of stars that originated from a single nebula in the arms of a spiral galaxy. Also called galaxy cluster or galactic cluster; (Astronomi) An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud, and are still loosely gravitationally bound to each other; or galactic cluster Any group of Population I (see Populations I and II) stars with a common origin, held together by mutual gravitation (not to be confused with a cluster of galaxies). Stars in open clusters are much more scattered than those in globular clusters. All known open clusters contain from about 10 to 1,000 or more stars (about half contain fewer than 100) and have diameters of 5-75 light-years. More than 1,000 have been discovered in the Milky Way Galaxy; well-known examples include the Pleiades and the Hyades
open clusters: plural form of open cluster

open cluster

Hyphenation

o·pen clus·ter

ōpın klʌstır

/ˈōpən ˈkləstər/ /ˈoʊpən ˈklʌstɜr/

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